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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.: John Sheffield
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Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
Hello seeker! Now don't feel alone here in the New Age, because there's a seeker born every minute.: Firesign Theatre
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "All's Well That Ends Well", Act 1 Scene 1
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.: Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966), Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
Television has raised writing to a new low.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.: Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC), 300 B.C.
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.: Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
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Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.: Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)