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In this life, we reap the results of everything that we do; even if the things that we do and the things that we become, are the direct results of circumstances that we could have never controlled, in the first place. They say we are never given more...

C. JoyBell C.

Few societies have come to grips with the new demography. We cling to the notion of retirement at sixty-five - a reasonable notion when those over sixty-five were a tiny percentage of the population but increasingly untenable as they approach 20 perc...

Atul Gawande

Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

Erik Brynjolfsson

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

James Lovelock

Loneliness is more painful than being hurt

Eiichiro Oda

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

William Osler

Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him. Proverbs 26.12

Biblical

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Chinese

Set out wisely at first; custom will make every virtue more easy and pleasant to you than any vice can be.

English

Justice is better than admiration If you are going to kill, then kill an elephant; if you are going to steal make sure it's a treasure.

Indian

There is only one thing harder than looking for a dewdrop in the dew, and that is fishing for a clam in the clam chowder.

New England

I grew up among wise men and found that there is nothing better for man than silence.

Sierra Leonean

Live patiently in the world; know that those who hate you are more numerous than those who love you.

African

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Chinese

Never does a woman lie in a more cunning way than when she tells the truth to someone who doesn't believe her.

Chinese

One good punch on your enemy's nose, gives more pleasure than hearing well-meaning advice from your elders.

Tibetan

The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks.

Yiddish

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

The Complete Essays

Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?

Dead and Alive

I never knew what it was to crave a woman’s touch. Or to hunger for a woman’s kiss.” “And now you do?” she asked hesitantly. “Since I met you, Corinne Bishop, I’ve been thinking of little else.

Deeper Than Midnight

Some women will spread a lie faster and wider than they’d spread their legs. These women are worse than whores. These women are politicians.

The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.