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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.: Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: Blue Noon, 2005
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You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.: Sefer Hasidim
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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 12-09-05
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Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.: Gladys Bronwyn Stern
There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), when asked to describe radio
In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.: Meg Cabot, The Boy Next Door, 2002
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The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.: Jane Wagner
We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.: Herb Caen
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Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.: Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy Comic, 08-15-07
Fools rush in where fools have been before.: Unknown
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There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.: Peter De Vries
All great truths begin as blasphemies.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Annajanska (1919)
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.: Baltasar Gracian
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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991