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“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” Friedrich Nietzche

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“The reading of good books is like a conversation with the best men of past centuries-in fact like a prepared conversation, in which they reveal only the best of their thoughts.” – Rene Descartes

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‘Love, friendship, and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred of something.” – Anton Chekhov

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“An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.” – Sun Tzu 

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“What is the meaning of life? That was all – a simple question, one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead...

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“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.” – Marting Heidegger

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“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.” -James Branch Cabell

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what a bucket of paint will do to lift one’s spirits

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as the past seven years have passed by, the one thing I learned since, is that to listen to your body, pay attention to it, and correct what is ever going on with it. so far, its worked for me.

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war is war. there’s no other way at looking at it.

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“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.” -Viktor Frankl (1905-1997), “Man’s Search for Meaning”

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“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.” -Carl Rogers (1902-1987)

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“Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.” – Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

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“Liberalism – it is well to recall this today–it is the supreme form of generosity, it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in...

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“No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to...

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life is grand if you have a grand or two (money)

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my philosophy: live enjoy and relax one day at a time it works for me

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My philosophy: Sundays are always good for kicking back and relaxing. What ever needs to be done, can be done tomorrow or whenever.

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“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.” ~ Iris Murdoch

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