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There is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.: Craig Newmark (1952 - ), Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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We think in generalities, but we live in detail.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
Truth is what stands the test of experience.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), The Sign of Four, A Scandal in Bohemia
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.: Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
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Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious.: Rodney Carrington
Say little, and love much; give all; judge no man; aspire to all that is pure and good.: White Eagle
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.: Sophy Burnham
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When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), letter to Le Comte d'Argental, August 28, 1760
We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.: Whoopi Goldberg
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
Walking is man's best medicine.: Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC)
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.: Charles Mackay