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The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.: James Carroll
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The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.: Harold B. Lee (1899 - 1973)
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What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885), 'Affurisms from Josh Billings: His Sayings,' 1865
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Politics is applesauce.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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I am interested in the homeless, but they're a symptom. You're treating a symptom and the disease rages on and consumes the human race. I'm talking about an overhaul of the system: putting power in different hands.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.: Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
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Trust that your child is trying to be the best he can be and that he will do this more readily without your criticism. Know that he usually sees his own faults without you continually pointing them out.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, July 12, 1711
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When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.: Whoopi Goldberg
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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I shall not pretend that I do not prefer to have people adore me rather than revile me, but I have always found that it was far easier for me to suffer the disapprobation of others than to amend my behaviour in order to find favour with them.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple
There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Perseverance does not equal worthiness.: Lawrence Kaplow, House M.D., Paternity, 2004
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
He talked with more claret than clarity.: Susan Ertz
I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.: Zach Braff