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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
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Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.: Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942)
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See, that's all you're thinking about, is winning. You're confirming your sense of self- worth through outward reward instead of through inner appreciation.: Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Gran Prix, 1994
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
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The best things carried to excess are wrong.: Charles Churchill
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.: Baltasar Gracian
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A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things - a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.: John Grogan, Marley and Me, 2005
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The world only goes round by misunderstanding.: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
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Grief does not change you, it reveals you.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Being manipulative is dishonest and immature. We often end up having to make up more lies to cover for inconsistencies in our original manipulation. In addition, it sets a terrible example for our children. While it may solve your initial problem, the tangled web that grows from such dishonesty is more trouble than it’s worth.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
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I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.: Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.: Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
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You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.: Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
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If I really wanted to pray I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or into the deep, deep, woods, and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just FEEL a prayer.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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