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"Paranoia is a finer scale of reality." »Michael W. Moore
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"A clever man commits no minor blunders." »Johann von Goethe
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"A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles." »Mignon McLaughlin
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"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends." »Plutarch
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"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue." »Ambrose Bierce
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"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values." »Norman Thomas
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"The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values." »Norman Thomas
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"The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm." »Josh Billings
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"Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four." »Katharine Hepburn
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"Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high- class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four." »Katharine Hepburn
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"When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions." »R Chamberlain
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"The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number." »Aristotle, quoted in http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html
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"Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire." »La Rochefoucauld
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"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special." »Stephen Hawking
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"Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures." »Vince Lombardi
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"Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives." »Marilyn Ferguson
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"The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means." »Sir Henry Taylor
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"A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones." »Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility." »Michael Korda
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"Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning." »W. B. Yeats
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"The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain." »David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory
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"I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone." »Gale Brook Burket
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"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature." »Sigmund Freud
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"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!" »John Burroughs, Birds and Poets, 1887
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"The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song" »John Burroughs
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"minor surgery is surgery someone else is having." »J. Carl Cook
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"Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions Let us examine the question." »Aleister Crowley
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