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God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.: Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien
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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Gaudy Night
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I take care of my things. After all, those of us as has few things to begin with must take care, lest we have fewer.: Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
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The fact is, the old clich%uFFFDs work for us in abstract terms, but they never work out in real life quite the same way. Life is messy; clich%uFFFDs are clean and tidy.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04
The highest result of education is tolerance.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), 'Optimism,' 1903
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), 'Art,' 1841
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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.: Harold Bloom (1930 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.: Akira Kurosawa (1910 - 1998)
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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992
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There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.: Cullen Hightower
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
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You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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It's not having what you want It's wanting what you've got.: Sheryl Crow, Soak Up The Sun
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.: Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.: Miss Piggy