There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.
~David Foster, House M.D., TB or Not TB, 2005
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
~Alfred Hitchcock
It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.
~James Gordon, M.D.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
~Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Eudemian Ethics
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
~Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Lincoln's Own Stories
Hope is a waking dream.
~Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), from Diogenes Laertius,
Lives of Eminent Philosopher
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