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Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was th

Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. – Joseph Heller

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Destiny is a good thing to accept when its going your way. When it isnt, dont call it destiny call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck. – Joseph Heller

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The one who pleased everybody died before they were born. – Proverb

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A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf… For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked. – Yogi Berra

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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. – Immanuel Kant

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