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There is no joy in a life that is all information. There is no 'juice' to that kind of life. No sweetness, no color. Like trading a beautiful golden-ripe orange for a stalk of whithered broccoli.: Tish Grier, love and sex and dreams, 04-15-06
Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
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Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.: Chuang-tzu (369 BC - 286 BC)
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough for Love, 1978
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The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.: Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Forgiveness is one of the many horrible side effects of loving someone.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 12-29-05
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.: Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937), Courage, 1927
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Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.: Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-03-04
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No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Deal with the consequences of your actions, 'cause life ain't no video game.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Spare no expense to save money on this one.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.: Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
By the work one knows the workmen.: Jean De La Fontaine (1621 - 1695)
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You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), (attributed)