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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), Emile, 1762
One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.: Henry Moore (1898 - 1986)
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.: Franklin P. Jones
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Notebook, 1935
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The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.: Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
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Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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