We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone. - Phyllis Bottome

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I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

Phyllis Bottome

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.

Alone, Evil, Good, Good And Evil, Seldom, Wrong

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it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.

Cured, Magic, Physicians, Psychiatry, Skills

Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!

Afford, Appear, Niceness, Nobody, Pleasant

A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!

Born, Children, Memories, Refugee

Lots of men hate women now-a-days. . . . It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.

Asking, Hate, Lots, Men, Shares

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

Giving, Love, Poet, Poets, Write, Writing

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Herman Melville

Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.

Battles, Courage, Mustache, Shrank, Yield

Lazarus of Bethany

To me, part of being an emcee is dedicated to speaking out about what's going on around us.

Dedicated, Emcee, Speaking, Speaking Out

Stephen Jay Gould

Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way, and many events are uncaused in any conventional sense of the word. Perhaps our gut feeling that it cannot be so reflects only our hopes and prejudices, our desperate striving to make sense of a complex and confusing world, and not the ways of nature.

Adequate, Causes, Confusing, Feelings, Prejudices, Randomness

George Bernard Shaw

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

Should Have, Taverns, Fool, Literary, Shaking, Trifling

Bryce Dallas Howard

In the culture we live in, there's this pervasive, shared agreement that there's a certain body type to admire, and it isn't actually based on anything real or substantive.

Agreement, Body Types, Real, Shared, Substantive