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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
Hell is full of musical amateurs.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.: Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.: Quentin Crisp
It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes.: Terri Minsky, Sex and the City, The Baby Shower, 1998
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.: Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859)
There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.: Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963), The Bell Jar, 1963
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.: Anne Tyler (1941 - )
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.: Thomas Henry Huxley
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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I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.: Nancy Reagan (1921 - )
Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.: Francis Maitland Balfour
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Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?: Frank Scully
What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds.: Cindy Gardner
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
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