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How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!: Belva Plain
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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Our Tribe, 1992
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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Interview, Mcsweeneys.net
I'm a jerk to everyone. Best way to protect yourself from lawsuits.: David Hoselton, House M.D., Guardian Angels, 2007
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.: Sylvia Ashton-Warner
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.: Edward Young (1683 - 1765), Love of Fame (satire I, l. 89)
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I have seen a peaceful expression turn to anger as fast as a whip cracks, and so the look on the face might mean less than what it seems to be.: Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
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It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.: Billy Joel (1949 - )
For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.: Gloria Borger
The more you know, the less you need.: Aboriginal Saying
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.: Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852), 1836
Nothing is worse than active ignorance.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.: Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost, 1934
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cat's Cradle"
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.: Dutch Proverb
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Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)