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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.: Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.: Storm Jameson
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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Emotions"
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Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.: John Lithgow
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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I don't know how to have casual conversation. You think you're talking about one thing, and either you are and it's incredibly boring, or you're not because it's subtext and you need a decoder ring.: Sara B. Cooper, House M.D., Love Hurts, 2004
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What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds.: Cindy Gardner
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
Sometimes people do things that hurt and it's not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with you, but you end up hurt because of it.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 08-23-05
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
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We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.: Joseph Chilton Pearce
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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
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I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey. I wish you peace in the world in which you live... More I cannot wish you except perhaps love to make all the rest worthwhile.: Robert A. Ward