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  Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

  Albert Einstein

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  One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.

  Topics in Japanese Proverbs, Smile

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• I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.

  Alexander Payne

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• I have always tried to live by the philosophy that when there is a big problem that needs fixing, you should run towards it, rather than away from it.

  Henry Paulson

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• I came from rather humble beginnings.

  Teresa Palmer

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• Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.

  Tom Hodgkinson

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  I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.

  Richard P. Feynman

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• Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers’ happiness – or what management types refer to as ’employee satisfaction results’ – might improve.

  Tom Hodgkinson

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• To me, the world’s rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.

  David Hockney

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• I am not at all a chocoholic. I would rather eat anchovy toast.

  Joanne Harris

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• I’d rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

  Mohsin Hamid

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  I’d rather die tomorrow than to live a hundred years without knowing you.

  Unknown

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  Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

  J. M. Barrie

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• When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that ‘civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.’ The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

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• I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

  Thomas Babington Macaulay

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

  Unknown

  Topics in Advice, Friendship

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• I’d rather make music than tour.

  Bob Seger

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• I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• Everything I’ve ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

  Toni Morrison

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  But I’d rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

  Jimmy Cliff

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