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If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.: Abraham Maslow (1908 - 1970)
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.: John Barth (1930 - )
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There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Indianapolis, 26 Sept. 1952
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
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It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "You Never Can Tell" (1898), act I
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I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.: Poul Anderson (1926 - 2001)
The things you own end up owning you.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club, 1996
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.: Stuart's Law of Retroaction
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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
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When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.: Kathleen A. Sutton
The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.: Rod Steiger
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.: Rabbi Abraham Heschel
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.: Michael Pritchard
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Nothing’s better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you.: Aaron Douglas Trimble
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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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