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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993
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Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.: Suzanne Necker (1739 - 1794)
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The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.: Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, Accepted, 2006
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Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.: George Lucas (1944 - ), Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.: Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that it’s not about me. It’s about the congregation. I honor the fact that the listeners bring more to the sermon than I do. I remind myself of the hundreds of times someone says, 'I loved how you said…' and then tell me things that they heard that were nowhere in my text and that I never said. But they heard what they needed to hear.: Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 04-07-2006
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There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
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Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.: Johann Georg von Zimmermann
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.: William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.: Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.: Jane Wagner, Lily Tomlin in "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe"
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Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.: Conan O'Brien, Final Tonight Show Speech, 2010
The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.: Rebecca Beard
Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.: Unknown
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.: Ice T, The Ice Opinion
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.: Peter De Vries
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