Security is Denial of Life

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Don’t lull yourself into a false state of security by engaging your skills for a week or two and then abandoning them. It’s what you do every day on the job that counts. – Warren H. Reed

He that is too secure is not safe. – Thomas Fuller

Security is a kind of death. – Tennessee Williams

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; securiry is a denial of life.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone. – Garbrielle Chanel

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. – Samuel Butler.

For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work. - Judith M. Bardwick

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A Tragedy for Those Who Feel

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The world is a vast temple dedicated to Discord. – Voltaire

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. – Benjamin Franklin

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In the fight between you and the world, back the world. – Frank Zappa

The world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. – Horace Walpole

The world is a funny paper read backwards—and that way it isn’t so funny. – Tennessee Williams

If the world was a logical place, men would ride side-saddle. – Rita Mae Brown

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell. – Aldous Huxley

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Secret Prostitution of the Soul

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The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul. - Norman Mailer

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, medication, depression, neurosis, and suicide. With failure comes failure. – Joseph Heller

Success and failure are equally disastrous. – Tennessee Williams

I don’t think suicide is so terrible. Some rainy winter Sundays, when there’s a little boredom, you should always carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know exactly that you’re always making a choice. – Lina Wertmuller

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves. – J.B. Priesley

Television: chewing gum for the eyes. – Frank Lloyd Wright

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. – Anonymous

Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. – Ernie Kovacs