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“If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”
― Adolf Hitler

“I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.”
― Charles Schultz

“Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.”
― Brian Tracy

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“I find out a lot about myself by sleeping. Dreams, they are who I am when I’m too tired to be me.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“I lost a little weight over the weekend. I cut my fingernails.”
― Jarod Kintz, $3.33

“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery

“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

“You know what I like most about people? Pets.
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― Jarod Kintz, Who Moved My Choose?: An Amazing Way to Deal With Change by Deciding to Let Indecision Into Your Life

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well!”
― Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction

“When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed”
― Laurell. K. Hamilton

“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it”
― Fernando Pessoa

“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.”
― Mark Twain

“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
― George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
― Terry Johnson, Insignificance

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
― Pablo Picasso

“Creativity takes courage. ”
― Henri Matisse

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.”
― Albert Einstein, Living Philosophies