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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.”
― Bernard Baruch

“Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts”
― Bernard Baruch

“Never follow the crowd.”
― Bernard Baruch

“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
― Bernard Baruch

“Two things are bad for the heart—running up stairs and running down people.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“...I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.”
― Bernard Mannes Baruch

“The ego wants to go fast. The soul needs to go slow.”
― Maxime Lagacé

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC”
― kurt vonnegut

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If only inflicted pain could be as contagious
As a plague, you might use it more sparingly.”
― Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning

“I have at least three virtues. How many have you got?”
― Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning

“God bless you, in case you sneeze.”
― Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning

“What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.”
― Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning

“One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.”
― Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning

“We are all of us lost. The best we can do is make whatever we're lost in as much like home as we can.”
― Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning

“I seem to wish to have some importance
In the play of time. If not,
Then sad was my mother's pain, my breath, my bones,
My web of nerves, my wondering brain,
to be shaped and quickened with such anticipation
Only to feed the swamp of space.
What is deep, as love is deep, I'll have
Deeply. What is good, as love is good,
I'll have well. Then if time and space
Have any purpose, I shall belong to it.
If not, if all is a pretty fiction
To distract the cherubim and seraphim
Who so continually do cry, the least
I can do is to fill the curled shell of the world
With human deep-sea sound, and hold it to
The ear of God, until he has appetite
To taste our salt sorrow on his lips.
And so you see it might be better to die.
Though, on the other hand, I admit it might
Be immensely foolish.”
― Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning

“I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.”
― Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning

“ALIZON They told me no one was here.
RICHARD It would be me they meant.”
― Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning

“Men are strange. It's almost unexpected to find they speak English.”
― Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning

“The trees were as bright as a shower of broken glass.”
― Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning

“I have always been sure
That when [the Day of Judgement] comes it will come in autumn.
Heaven, I am quite sure, wouldn't disappoint
The bulbs.”
― Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning

“When he was born he gave an algebraic
Cry; at one glance measured the cubic content Of that ivory cone his mother's breast
And multiplied his appetite by five.
So he matured by a progression, gained Experience by correlation, expanded Into a marriage by contraction, and by Certain physical dynamics
Formulated me. And on he went
Still deeper into the calculating twilight Under the twinkling of five-pointed figures Till Truth became for him the sum of sums And Death the long division. My poor father.”
― Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning

“I have come Here to have the protection of your laughter.”
― Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning