The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
Thomas Merton
Recitation: by Male by Female
I leave a $100 bill and a note to the housekeeper at every hotel I've ever been in. It's important to write that they're recognized and appreciated.
Jim Irsay
HotelImportantWriteLeaveBeen
I enjoy doing nothing.
Jeffrey Bernard
DoingEnjoyNothing
We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri.
Meriwether Lewis
ServiceMountainsBlackEnoughLast
I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.
John Podhoretz
New YorkLookNewReviewYearsBeen
With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take you to new places.
Amitava Kumar
StruggleImaginationYouNewDesire
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Socrates
DeathPeoplePhilosophyWayRight
The fact that some things are mysterious or that they touch on mystery isn't in some way a capitulation, and one should realize that there are some things that we may never understand and, to that extent, should be humbled by that.
Simon Conway Morris
MysteryUnderstandTouchWayNever
When my father died, my mother was still alive. And I think when your second parent dies, there is that shock: 'Oh man, I'm an orphan.' There's also this relief: It's done; it's finished; it's over.
Roz Chast
FatherMotherManThinkParentDone
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Mary Kay Ash
SuccessConfidenceHonestyAbility
I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.
Julia Child
WomenOrganizationHelpNeverOffice
You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.
Doug Stanhope
LaughYouFindHumourEvenShould
Beyond racing, I just love the art form of running, of conceiving new ideas like the 50 Marathons in 50 States in 50 Days. It's the ultimate expression of what I love to do, which is run, and travel, and see this great country.
Dean Karnazes
LoveGreatArtTravelIdeasRacing
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