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Quote by Samuel Johnson
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happines

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. – Samuel Johnson

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Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. – Samuel Johnson

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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. – Samuel Johnson

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Say “Yes” to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say “Yes” to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say “Yes” to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia. – Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951

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I never expect to lose. Even when Im the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Attitude is attitude, whether youre a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know? – Paul Walker

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The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. – Eudora Welty

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Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character. – Loretta Young

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I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello. – Anthony Holden

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Ive done my best to work from a place of humility – always looking over your shoulder saying, Does this suck? and I think thats a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, Im on fire, Im amazing! and I dont think thats the way to work. – David O. Russell

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Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: One must not hide that! Then someone tells you: The shoulder is on the back. Ive never seen women with shoulders on their backs. – Coco Chanel

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