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Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.: Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
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We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.: William Arthur Ward
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.: Garth Brooks, Country Music
It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's weblog, 04-11-2006
I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn’t get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn’t gotten to be a person yet.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.: Alexis Carrel (1873 - 1944)
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.: William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)
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Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.: James F. Byrnes (1879 - 1972)
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.: George Wald (1906 - )
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.: Ingrid Bengis
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Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.: Evan Davis
Getting caught is the mother of invention.: Robert Byrne
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Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.: William James (1842 - 1910)
The only gift is a portion of thyself.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait.: Jose Simon
It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Mirror Dance", 1994
Not going home is already like death.: E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act
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