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  • Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. – Jim Backus

  • It’s easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It’s not the hours you put in, but what you put into the hours that counts. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude. – Jim Rohn

  • In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. – Edith Wharton

  • The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of…

  • If you can approach the world’s complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not…

  • Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too. – Lloyd Alexander

  • The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. – Bertrand Russell

  • It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all — in which case, you fail by default. – J. K. Rowling

  • You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. – Shira Tehrani

  • I thought that it was strange to assume that it was abnormal for anyone to be forever asking questions about the nature of the universe, about what the human condition really was, my condition, what I was doing here, if there was really something to do. It seemed to me on the contrary that it…

  • If you were my husband, I’d poison your tea! – Lady Astor If I were your husband, I’d drink it! – Winston Churchill

  • I refuse to get involved in a battle of wits with an unarmed person. – Unknown