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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech in New York, September 7, 1903
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Personally I have struggled massively with the dilemma of talent vs desire. Choosing desire may not always be the easiest thing to do. It may seem a waste to leave those natural talents behind and strike out in a new direction. But at least you’ll feel alive.: Meri Williams, Talent vs Desire, 05-29-06
When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.: John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
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It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.: Susan Partnow
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.: Slovenian Proverb
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Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Three Doctors, 1993
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I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.": Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, June 2003
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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.: Swatch, Always Now, 1997
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Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), 'Politics Getting Ready to Jell,' The Illiterate Digest, 1924
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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?': Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.: Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Sohrab and Rustum,' 1853
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We are the people our parents warned us about.: Jimmy Buffett
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.: Anonymous
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.: Edward Chilton
Hold a true friend with both hands.: Nigerian Proverb
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