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Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. Gertrude Stein

Day Long Lose Sense Everyone All Day Gets Common Information Common Sense Much

Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely. Gretchen Rubin

People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation? Gunter Grass

Time Me You Change Strange People Sometimes Alien People Change Think Alienation Later About Seem He Feel Him Am Were His Years Child Person Trying Childhood Happened Decipher Certain Stranger Things

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. H. G. Wells

Path Least Loser Resistance

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it? H. G. Wells

Socialism Achieve Word Experiment Extraordinarily Else Collapse Parallel Russian Attempt New Policies Call New Deal Deal Shirk America American Social Plainly Working Avert Successive Plans

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. H. G. Wells

Today Tomorrow Joke Crisis

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. H. G. Wells

Broken Path Strewn Must Advancement Friendships Social

There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies. Hanna Rosin

Blame Conflict Debate Ending Enemies Old Circle Signs King Past Other Latent Spill Finger Pointing Open Between Calamity Over Himself Adviser Court Always Nascent His Chewing Errors Who Each Reign Inner

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Great Me Try Mediocrity Heroic Would Bores Something Could Like Stylish Least Very Wants Grand Then Fashionable Why Everlasting

Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. Helen Fielding

Good Day You Free Year Whatever Think Ease Would Would-Be Eat More Rationally Consume Generally Idea New Began Dieting Hangover Order Sensible January Much Really Your Moment Necessary Second Need Resolutions Good Idea

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either. Helen Keller

Experience People Nothing Range Find About Outside Beyond Know Look Within Conclude Short Either Little Themselves Many Therefore

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference. Henry David Thoreau

First Indifference Sin After Blush

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it? Henry David Thoreau

You Man Grief Will Long Every Way Sun See Spirit Shadow Only Casts Imperfectly Never He Him Opposite Noon His Falls Did Short Which Turn Body Eve Every Man

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. Henry David Thoreau

You Earnest Squirrel Dies Jest

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes. Henry David Thoreau

Health Sometimes Healthy Sick Tis

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. Henry David Thoreau

Me Thought Compliment Attended Answer Greatest Asked Paid Ever

Simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau

Simplify

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. Henry Miller

Life Beautiful Music You Yourself People World Rich See Develop Simply Souls Forget Literature Interest Interesting Interesting People Things Treasures

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. Henry Miller

Life Beautiful Music You Yourself People World Rich See Develop Simply Souls Forget Literature Interest Interesting Interesting People Things Treasures

Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation. Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail. Henry Petroski

Failure Engineer Single Understanding Engineering Every About Fail Calculation Makes How Break Central Successful Things

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