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The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.


Oliver Goldsmith
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True greatness consists in being great in little things.


Charles Simmons
Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.
Marla Maples
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I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.
Daniel Breaker
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
Ernest Hemingway
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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.


Marguerite Gardiner
With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.
Nancy Grace
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To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.


Martha Beck
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Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.
Ignatius of Loyola
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I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.
Lorde
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It's always been about making the best Mac we know how. Among the many benefits are making it easy to use and affordable, with great features.
Phil Schiller
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This above all; to thine own self be true.


William Shakespeare
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The constellation of opinion called the blogosphere consists, like the stars themselves, partly of gases. This is what makes blogs addictive - that is, both pleasurable and destructive: They're so easy to consume and so endlessly available.
George Packer
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Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.


Ralph Marston
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Growth makes management easier. In particular, it makes making labor concessions seem easy. It's when growth stops because you're being disrupted that managing becomes really, really hard, and as a result, most disrupted companies simply disappear.
Clayton Christensen
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Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.


Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.


Ambrose Bierce