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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#character #consists #consuming #deliberately #describe

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#appalling #existence #glowing #hold #opinion

People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#hoping #led #payoff #people #sites

In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them. ↗

— Mark Cuban

#behind #businesses #enough #hype #in my opinion

I'm not the type to pat myself on the back and all that, but somebody has to be lucky, right? When I got to Dallas, I was struggling - sleeping on the floor with six guys in a three-bedroom apartment. I used to drive around, look at the big houses, and imagine what it would be like to live there and use that as motivation. ↗

— Mark Cuban

#around #back #big #dallas #drive

I'm going to vote in support of the president of the United States in keeping the troops in Iraq until the president and our military is convinced that the mission is complete. ↗

— John Culberson

#convinced #going #i #iraq #keeping

It was a lot of auditions and tapings and stuff like that. ↗

— Kieran Culkin

#like #lot #stuff #tapings

The positive vibrations of unregulated joy, peace, happiness and tranquility is freedom. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#happiness #joy #peace #positivity #quotes

Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#calm #course #done #entertaining #facts

If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring. ↗

— Nate Silver

#boring #bubble #data #fits #gets