"In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not."
-Marya Mannes
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"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.“
-Marya Mannes
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"The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality."
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"In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude."
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"It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better."
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"Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them."
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"If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring."
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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
-George Orwell
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"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."
-Jim Rohn
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
-Marcus Aurelius
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"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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