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posted by Staff, on 25 april 2024 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wealth and poverty, Moods)

It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don't just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

posted by Staff, on 24 april 2024 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

Jean Cocteau

posted by Staff, on 24 april 2024 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)

Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign.

John Donne

posted by Staff, on 23 april 2024 12.00 in Humor (Satire)

President Obama says he wants to put an end to the policy, 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell. ' Yeah, in the military. This is not to be confused with George Bush's policy, 'Don't Know, Don't Care. ' That's a whole different deal.

David Letterman

posted by Staff, on 23 april 2024 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)

There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...

Agatha Christie

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