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“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.”
Buddha
“If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.”
Bernard Meltzer
“It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.”
Marilyn Monroe
“A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.”
Marilyn Monroe
“It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.”
Marilyn Monroe
“No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.”
Marilyn Monroe
“I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.”
Marilyn Monroe
“I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.”
Marilyn Monroe
“I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.”
Marilyn Monroe
“I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.”
Marilyn Monroe
“An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.”
Marilyn Monroe
“The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.”
Marilyn Monroe
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln
“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”
Abraham Lincoln
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
Abraham Lincoln
“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.”
Abraham Lincoln
“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”
Abraham Lincoln
“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.”
Abraham Lincoln
“To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.”
Stephen Hawking
“There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.”
Stephen Hawking
“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.”
Stephen Hawking
“There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”
Stephen Hawking
“Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.”
Stephen Hawking
“The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.”
Stephen Hawking
