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• If you really want to do something new, the good won't help you with it.
  Let me have men about me that are arrant knaves. The wicked, who have something on their conscience, are obliging, quick to hear threats, because they know how it's done, and for booty....
• It's your life, do what you want.
• When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large.
  When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life. -- Geoffrey F. Abe...
• Life is 10% what you make of it and 90% how you take it.
• It is beyond your power to do that.
• Burns: Imagine it, Smithers: electrical lights and heaters running all day long!
  Smithers: But Sir! Every plant and tree will die, owls will deafen us with incessant hooting....
• Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
• Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out if it alive.
• What do you want from life? -- the Tube