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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.: Lichty and Wagner
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.: Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose.: Jeff Mallett, Frazz, 08-03-04
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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No one else can speak the words on your lips Drench yourself in words unspoken Live your life with arms wide open Today is where your book begins The rest is still unwritten: Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten
A little drama wins more friends than boring.: Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: The Secret Hour, 2004
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.: William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 4, 1944-1947
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.: Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin
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A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
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That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.: Simone de Beauvoir
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, A View of the Nile, 1970
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.: Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005), Tragedy and the Common Man