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I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think interior decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
A witty saying proves nothing.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.: William Lyon Phelps
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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.: Italian Proverb
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Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.: Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)
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We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them.: Gene McSweeney, Grey Water Photography, 06-04-2006
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In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.: Edward P. Tryon
Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism. For the record, it’s my least favorite quality. It doesn’t lead anywhere.: Conan O'Brien, Final Tonight Show Speech, 2010
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.: Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.: Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895)
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.: Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536)
I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they do it over and over again for months when they figure it out, and how basketball was basically just a slightly more aerobic version of that same exercise.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.: May Sarton
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)