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 Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.  We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are. Obscenity is whatever gives a judge an erection. The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness. Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. - Napoleon Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly. Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars. Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses. I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain. - Plautus Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained. The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived; less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced. Rivers and rocks and trees have always been talking to us, but we've forgotten how to listen. Data data everywhere but not a thought to think. I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes, economic pressure, and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically. People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practised. The temple of silence and reconciliation. - Macaulay Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death. Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. Shake a bridle over a Yorkshireman's grave, and he'll rise and steal a horse. If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. 
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