During the Depression, or

During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn’t have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressing problems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

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The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we would fain be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we cheat other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

~ Marcel Proust

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

~ Sigmund Freud

We hate some persons because we do not know them and we will not know them because we hate them.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

Two Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. They are the first to figure out all the charges on their phone bill.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

~ Thomas a Kempis

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To err is human, but it feels divine.

We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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