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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
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Robert Sternberg
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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
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Theophrastus (372 BC - 287 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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Exit, pursued by a bear.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Stage direction in "The Winter's Tale"
In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn't quite know what to do about it. At a certain point, I felt God is not looking for alms. God is looking for action.
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Bono (1960 - ), Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
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Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
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Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
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Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
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R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
We're all in this alone.
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Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
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Max Frisch
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To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit.
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Robert J. Furey
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Frequency of a tragedy does not diminish the wound when it is your own.
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Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.
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Martin Mull (1943 - )
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
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Eric Ambler
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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