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In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.: Roger Allen
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.: Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963), Les Enfants Terribles
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.: Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637)
If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.: Julia Sorel
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What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.: Hansell B. Duckett
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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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...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.: Bill Clinton (1946 - ), announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996
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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.: Abraham Maslow (1908 - 1970)
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
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It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.: Woody Allen (1935 - ), Without Feathers, 1976
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.: Sir Henry Taylor
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The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.: Ruth Benedict (1887 - 1948)
Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.: Robbie Gass
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Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to?: Tom Hanks (1956 - ), Esquire, June 2006
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Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.: Unknown
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