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• As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Travel, Home, Museums

  Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.4000, Delphi Classics

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• When I read these books, I no longer felt like I was confined to a very tiny world. I no longer felt housebound and bedbound. Really, I told myself, I was just brainbound. And this was not such a sorry state of affairs. My brain, with a little help from other people's brains, could take me to some pretty interesting places, and create all kinds of wonderful things. Despite its faults, my brain, I decided, was not the worst place in the world to be.

  Gavin Extence

  Sorry, Book, People

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• The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.

  Johnny Carson

  Birthday, Christmas, People

  "Late-Night TV Icon Johnny Carson Dies", abcnews.go.com. January 23, 2005.

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• For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything chosen about them.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, Cancer, Israel

  "Childish Superstition: Einstein's Letter Makes View of Religion Relatively Clear" by James Randerson, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2008.

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• I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me; become better without noticing it; become sadder, but enjoy living; become more serene, be happy in others; belong to no one, grow in everyone; love the best, comfort the worst; not even hate myself anymore.

  Elias Canetti

  Happiness, Hate, People

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• Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Business, Worst Enemy, Innovation

  "The Balance of Trade of Ideas" by Nicholas Negroponte, www.wired.com. April 1, 1995.

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• He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend:
  Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure
  For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.

  Henry Taylor

  Time, Eternity, Cures

  Sir Henry Taylor (1844). “Philip van Artvelde; a dramatic romance ... Second edition”, p.21

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• Piper leaned toward [Jason], her caramel braid falling over her shoulder. Her multicolored eyes made it hard for him to think straight. “And where is this place?” she asked. “A . . . uh, a town called Split.” “Split.” She smelled really good—like blooming honeysuckle. “Um, yeah.” Jason wondered if Piper was working some sort of Aphrodite magic on him—like maybe every time he mentioned Reyna’s name, she would befuddle him so much he couldn’t think about anything but Piper. He supposed it wasn’t the worst sort of revenge.

  Rick Riordan

  Revenge, Fall, Eye

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• The worst speak something good; if all want sense,
  God takes a text, and preacheth patience.

  George Herbert

  Patience, Want, Speak

  'The Church Porch' (1633) st. 72

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• The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.

  Bette Midler

  Funny, Success, Jealousy

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• Her smile faded. “Do you know the worst thing about it? I forgot him. Daemon was a friend, and I forgot him. That Winsol, before I was…he gave me a silver bracelet. I don’t know what happened to it. I had a picture of him. I don’t know what happened to that either. And then he gave everything he had to help me, and when it was done, everyone walked away from him as if he didn’t matter.

  Anne Bishop

  Done, Matter, Helping

  Anne Bishop (2003). “The black jewels trilogy”, Roc

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• Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Inspirational, Firsts, Photograph

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• We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.

  Roderick Thorp

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  Roderick Thorp (2014). “Rainbow Drive”, p.68, Open Road Media

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• An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Mistake, Failure, Math

  Der Teil und das Ganze ("The Part and the Whole," 1969) ch. 17 (translated by A. J. Pomerans in 1971 as Physics and Beyond)

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• The worst old age is that of the mind.

  William Hazlitt

  Time, Mind, Age

  William Hazlitt (1934). “The Complete Works of William Hazlitt”

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• Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong,
  My love shall in my verse ever live young.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Young, Despite

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 19.

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• Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Positive, Happiness, Success

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• A parabatai. Like he was. And Jace knew, too, what that faded rune meant: a parabatai whose other half was dead. He felt his sympathy leap toward Brother Zachariah, as he imagined himself without Alec, with only that faded rune to remind him where once he had been bonded to someone who knew all the best and worst parts of his soul.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Soul, Half

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Heavenly Fire”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.

  Veronica Roth

  Pain, Watches, Absence

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• Come with me." "Come with you? To Pandemonium? To the Void? And here I thought that my invitation to summer in New Jersey was the worst I had ever received.

  Cassandra Clare

  Summer, Void, Jersey

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2015). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.

  Anais Nin

  Confidence, Good Luck, Fate

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• Long distance relationships are living proof that love is not just physical. I can feel you next to me even when you're thousands of miles away.
  Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

  Paulo Coelho

  Relationship, Distance, Love Is

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• War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny .. .Time and time again it has destroyed all ordered living, devastated hope, and put the prophets to death.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Crush, Peace, War

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• What have I done? What horrid crime committed?
  To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking.

  Colley Cibber

  Life, Done, Crime

  Colley Cibber (1760). “The careless husband; The rival fools; The lady's last stake; Richard III”, p.334

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• It's the hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times.

  Nick Jonas

  Hope, Trying, Hopeless

  "Song: 'Don't Speak' ('Lines, Vines and Trying Times')". 2009.

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