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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.: John Cage (1912 - 1992)
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.: Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
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The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we’d done were less real and important than they had been hours before.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.: Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
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Honor does not have to be defended.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.: Jack London (1876 - 1916)
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), David Copperfield, 1849
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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.: Garrison Keillor (1942 - )
Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.: Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
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I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.: Goldie Hawn (1945 - )
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
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You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despairâ€“the sense that you can never completely put on the page whatâ€™s in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.: Stephen King (1947 - ), On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000
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The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.: Edwina Currie, in Observer, 1988