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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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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. – Joseph Heller

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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. – Joseph Heller

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I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know. – Epicurus

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Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper. – Gerald Early

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What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. – Erich Fromm

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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. – Margaret Fuller

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She doesnt understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven. – Joan Rivers

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Pray on the shadowy hillside of hardship and on the sunny hillside of happiness. – Terri Guillemets

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