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We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library

If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.

"13 Questions With Will Smith". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.askmen.com. January 23, 2007.

Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.

Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.130, Taylor Trade Publications

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion, essays: With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read”

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.287, Bantam