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I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done.: Julia Louise Woodruff, 'Harvest Home,' Sunday at Home, 1910
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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You never can see into someone else's marriage.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.: Chinese Proverb
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Dude, marriage is the 'get out of loneliness free' card in the Monopoly game of life.: Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz, Home on the Strange, 11-09-07
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Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.: Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967)
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.: James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003
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The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.: George Sheehan
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Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.: Woody Allen (1935 - ), Without Feathers, 1976
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.: Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994)
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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.: John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
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When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
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