Helen Clark MacInnes Quotes

• Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  Positive, Attitude, Work

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• The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.

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  Pain, Feelings, Mind

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• Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.

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  Expectations, Pessimism, Worst

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• Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

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  Mean, Men, Use

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• The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

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  Discovery, Adults, World

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• Civilization is a perishable commodity.

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  Civilization, Commodity

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• Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

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  Greek, Mixtures, May

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• And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

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  Barbarians, Destruction, Worst

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• one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.

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  Friendship, Depth, Length

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• Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?

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  People, Curiosity, Attractive

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• Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

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  Self, Remember, Forget

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• Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  Men, Trying, World

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