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When there's snow on the ground, I like to pretend I'm walking on clouds.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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I hate life, I hate death and everything in between just doesn't interest me.: Chris Rapier
It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.: Billy Joel (1949 - )
She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do.: Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.: Katherine Paterson, The Spying Heart, 1989
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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair - to the anguish of an afflicted one!: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.: Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974)
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.: Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
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Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.: Thomas Tusser, 1524
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We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.: Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than our longing for righteousness.: Evelyn Rodriguez, Crossroads Dispatches, 04-12-2006
If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.: Marcus Bridgstocke
A finished person is a boring person.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
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Everyone's a hero in their own way, in their own not that heroic way.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Wearing White Clothes speech, 1907
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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.: P. B. Medawar (1915 - )
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"
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The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.: Martina Navratilova (1956 - )