“The soul that has no fixed goal loses itself; for as they say, to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
Michel de Montaigne, quoted in The Wall Street Journal
“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.”
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“Fame is the sum of misapprehensions that accrue around a name.”
Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, quoted in The Economist
“A politician is a man who will double-cross that bridge when he comes to it.”
Writer Oscar Levant, quoted in the Montreal Gazette
“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.”
Will Rogers, quoted in the United Press International
“The weird thing about acting is that you get paid for discovering you have multiple personalities.”
Jane Fonda, quoted in the New York Post
“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.”
Bette Davis, quoted in the Monterey County, Calif., Herald
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