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To take the measure of oneself by reference to one’s colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.
BRET EASTON ELLIS

Mask Sanity Slippage Vacation
Religions have become a hindrance, rather than a help, to our shared pursuit of peace and progress.
AGNIVESH

Compassion Hindrance Humanity Justice Peace Progress Pursuit Rather Religion Shared
I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.
WILLIAM GOLDING

Been Began Ever Off Say Seven Since Still When Write You
Only I can’t do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.
ADAM GARCIA

Ass Backward Cast Ended Followed Following Good Laugh Position Unsightly
For the rest of my life I will stay by his side. A union this world could never divide.
JADE

Connection Life Relationship Separate Stay Unity World
Needle in a haystack, a small town on a roadmap, searching for you through the abstract- how incredibly hard to find.
HANNAH PEARL

Find Hard Incredible Map Road Small Yourself
The thing is, I make music I like. So it’s just weird if someone says they don’t like it.
TYLER, THE CREATOR

Music Myself Weird
Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

Born Inspirational Myself Unknown
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE

Character Money Nation See Value
That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.
ADAM SMITH

Chance Learning Nature Success Value
The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.
AKBAR GANJI

Advancement Contribute Democracy Exist Infrastructure Juman Modern Right World
I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don’t like to get my knees dirty. I don’t have a garden.
NICK CAVE

Dirty Garden Knees
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO

Opinion Significance Source
Imagine your dreams as billions of stars – shining to guide wakefulness.
VINCENT JAMES

Dreams Guide Imagination Shine Stardom Wake Up
And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they’re drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian.
BEN AARONOVITCH

Almost Always Between Consequences Start Unless
A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can’t.
JACK MA

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