It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. – Henry David Thoreau
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He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream. – Proverb
Dont you stay at home of evenings? Dont you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? – Oliver Wendell Holmes
I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof… I didnt care. – Dominic Monaghan
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. – Ayn Rand
