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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.
Oprah Winfrey

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
Frank Gelett Burgess

"Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny."
Pierre Corneille

I have built my organization upon fear.
Al Capone

"Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them."
H L Mencken

"Propaganda is a soft weapon hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way."
Jean Anouilh

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.
William Bolitho

There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
Titus Livius

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
Laurence Sterne

"Lord, how the day passes It's like a life--so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly if we do."
John Ernst Steinbeck