If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
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It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, 'He's so big, we can never kill him.' But David looked at the same giant and thought, 'He's so big, I can't miss him.'
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We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
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I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.
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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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You can pretend to be serious you can't pretend to be witty.
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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
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I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all that agnosticism means.
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are surethat is all that agnosticism means.
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We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.
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Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
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If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
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To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
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I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.
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Seems like everyone's an actor or an actor's best friend, I wonder what was wrong to begin with that they should all have to pretend.
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People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
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People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
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Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
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The educated minority, although no longer believing in the existing religious teaching, still pretend to believe
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Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend
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You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.
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