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1. Envy is a way of counting the joys of others instead of your own.
2. A whole new world - - From another perspective.
3. The books are wonderful. They are a replacement for people, a way to get to people and thus get to know people.
4. Love is blind. Marriage restores vision.
5. The rich think about the future, the poor only about the present.
6. We call theories we believe in facts, facts we distrust we call theories.
7. Angry cats have scratchy fur.
8. You may fail many times, but you will become a failure only when you start blaming others.
9. Generalizations are usually wrong.
10. Liberalism is a number of bitter experiences compiled into principles that would expose and prevent oppression
11. Choose your own battles yourself.
12. The more information, the more pain.
13. Melancholy is a wonderful feeling of being sad.
14. A success of war means thousands of killed and maimed.
15. Caution is the way to wisdom.
16. No evil that does not have some good with it.
17. A yawn is uncivilized, but expresses an opinion sincerely.
18. Life is a beautiful soap bubble. In death you see how empty the human bubble is.
19. A woman's cunning often wins over a man's intelligence.
20. The only people who are lucky in a nuclear war are those who die in the first strike.
21. Own success is the best - but the setbacks of others are not to be despised either.
22. There are two types of curiosity. One is based on selfishness and makes us find out what could be useful to us. The second is based on pride and depends on the desire to know what others do not know.
23. He who never complains never arouses pity.
24. The hardest temptation is not money or love. The most difficult temptation is power.
25. Much can be said about dictatorships. But only in democracies.
26. Progress usually means speed and not direction.
27. Approval from my opponent is the surest sign that I am doing something wrong.
28. Our idealism increases the less it affects our own interests.
29. A politician divides people into two categories: tools and enemies.
30. Injustices are often forgotten, but never the despise. Our pride will remember it forever.
31. Love is not touching each other, but reaching each other.
32. Avant-gardes are people who don't really know where they're going, but get there first.
33. Democracy a social system that can be abolished democratically.
34. Disadvantage of, when things go really well for me, that it annoys my friends.
35. The good life is a process, not a state. It is a direction, not a destination.
36. If you believe in yourself, you don't try to convince others.
37. Of all the emotions, fear is the one that weakens judgment the most.
38. All generalizations can be dangerous, even this one.
39. You don't get a second chance to make a first impression.
40. People who are wrong often use insults as arguments.
41. Wars don't solve problems, so they continue.
42. Fundamentalism makes peace on earth a utopia.
43. Silence means consent or a terrible feeling that no one is listening.
44. If someone deceives me once - shame on him; if he deceives me one more time - my shame.
45. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
46. If I can solve my problem, why should I worry? If I can't solve my problem, what helps me to worry?
47. If things go wrong, don't go with them.
48. When I changed my way of looking at the thing, the thing I looked at also changed.
49. When manna rains from heaven, the poor man has no spoon.
50. I hear and I forget. I see, I remember that. I do and so I understand.
51. Dissatisfaction is the first step to progress and improvement.
52. Empty floor space makes the room liveable and free times make life bearable.
53. Most autobiographies are the sum of authors life's lies.
54. Self-discipline is a bridge between goals and achievements.
55. Crocodile tears run down a hard skin.
56. When something ceases to be controversial, it is no longer interesting.
57. Many reject a good idea just because it's not their own.
58. Remembering: A look into the past.
59. Selling: A way to get money out of another person's pockets without violence.
60. Attempts to create paradise on earth have always created hell.
61. When the opportunity appears, it is too late to prepare.
62. Extreme idealists are always cowards; they flee from reality.
63. Fate leads the willing, it pulls the unwilling.
64. We communicate best when we use the least number of words and sentences.
65. The more subordinates succeed and prosper, the more it says about a leader's ability to lead.
66. Greed often starves the other bad habits.
67. What is a loss? Nothing but learning, nothing more than the first step towards something better.
68. There would be no slanderers if no one wanted to listen to them.
69. The best grades are given at the funeral.
70. Genius shows the way, talent uses it.
71. Amateurs are who do something for nothing. Professionals are who do nothing for free.
72. The penis and the mind stand at the same time.
73. The secret to a successful business is knowing something that no one else knows.
74. Nothing gilds the past like a bad memory.
75. A happy person has no worries. A harmonious person has learned to live with them.
76. Resisting evil does not make you good.
77. It was simple, say many when they meet and realize a genius idea.
78. Some people believe in anything - as long as you whispered it to them.
79. Why does Jeppe drink, but why doesn't Jeppe's brother drink?
80. Love is the triumph of imagination over reason.
81. You can't describe a person, but you can describe your impression, you have got of him.
82. It is a great mistake in a state, where people think that cunning men are wise.
83. It is easy to blame others. That's why many of us do. To praise with understanding is much more difficult.
84. Words can lie, but actions always show the truth.
85. There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog and money.
86. The future comes by itself, progress does not.
87. Courage is often a lack of insight, while cowardice often depends on reliable information.
88. You often get enemies if you try to change something.
89. Of course, there is something called luck. How else can we explain the success of our enemies.
90. It must be forged while the iron is hot.
91. There are three kinds of journalists; the reporter who writes about what he sees, the interpretive journalist who writes about what he sees and analyses it, and the expert who writes about and analyses what he has not seen.
92. A person who hates someone does not understand her.
93. Quotation; a way of repeating someone else's words incorrectly.
94. Fervent atheism can be camouflage for repressed religiosity.
95. Rule 1. The boss is always right.
    Rule 2. If the boss is wrong, rule 1 applies.
96. You always learn something when you check after-hand what the action had led to.
97. Hate, the most comfortable form of rebellion.
98. I can learn a lot from my mistakes. But it would be cheaper to learn from others.
99. Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.
100. Envy stings in the wounds of vanity.

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