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The quality of a person's life is the sum total of the character, good or not so good, of the people whom he has inspired and motivated, directly and indirectly, with his living standard and lifestyle. — Anuj

You'll leave a trail of trash on this Earth that will far exceed anything of worth you leave behind. For every ounce of heirloom, you leave a ton of landfill. — Adam Sternbergh

O my God, how true it is that we may have of Thy gifts and yet may be full of ourselves! — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity. — Quintilian

And we want to make sure that something is done to salvage what's left of this beautiful race called humans. — James Dashner

Generosity, generosity, generosity, must be the beginning and ending of our life — Cornelia Connelly

If I pick up a fiddle, I don't compose on it, so much as I just play whatever. — Sam Amidon

You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa. — Malcolm Turnbull

On TV they keep their kids. Love them. — Koushun Takami

You've got to tell a story, paint a vision, know your metrics and sell, sell, sell. — Mitch Harper

I have a number of symptoms that are neurotic and are constricting in the sense that if I had a brilliant idea for a film that had to be shot in Tulsa, OK I would tear it up and throw it away. Anything outside of New York, 'cause I can't exist in a hotel outside of my own home, I have to be in my own home and my own environment. This is a neurotic symptom that is constricting to my work even. — Woody Allen

In every romance you have to budget for the occasional dust-up. — P.G. Wodehouse

Stoicism, seen this way, becomes pure robustness - for the attainment of a state of immunity from one's external circumstances, good or bad, and an absence of fragility to decisions made by fate, is robustness. Random events won't affect us either way (we are too strong to lose, and not greedy to enjoy the upside), so we stay in the middle column of the Triad. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Aside from helping people with their homework, or anything else they needed, she really didn't know how to meet people. She didn't feel like she was a shy person. She thought of herself as a take-charge sort of girl. And yet, somehow, if there wasn't some request along the lines of "I can't remember how to do long division" then it was just too awkward to go up to someone and say ... what? She'd never been able to figure out what. And there didn't seem to be a standard information sheet, which was ridiculous. The whole business of meeting people had never seemed sensible to her. Why did she have to take all the responsibility herself when there were two people involved? Why didn't adults ever help? She wished some other girl would just walk up to her and say, "Hermione, the teacher told me to be friends with you". — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. — Rem Koolhaas