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I love to laugh. I love to make people laugh.
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I don’t think you need to go looking for the enemy. He’s going to look for you.
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Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
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So many books, so little time.
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What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
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A woman’s mind is cleaner than a man’s: She changes it more often.
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Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
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Come with me and you’ll be in a world of pure imagination.
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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
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A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
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I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
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I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you’re on it.
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The moment you place someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you.
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
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Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
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A person’s a person, no matter how small.
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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
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We only part to meet again.
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To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.
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The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
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I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.
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Always be a poet, even in prose.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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Solitude devastates me, company oppresses me.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you are
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
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Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
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We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
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Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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To get laid! It is human nature, you have to de-responsible-ise yourself.
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People are often afraid of things that sound new.
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Being a superhero is a lot of fun.
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Nothing in life is promised except death.
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Time heals all wounds.
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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
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Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me - I quit.’
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
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Where there is love there is life.
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I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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I want to stay in the moment and enjoy the great things that are happening.
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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
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The time is always right to do what is right.
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Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.
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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Success is dependent on effort.
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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
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Freedom lies in being bold.
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If you’re not prepared for failure then you’re not prepared to succeed.
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
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The environment is everything that isn’t me.
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Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.
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Film spectators are quiet vampires.
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A day without laughter is a day wasted.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
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Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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We have the best government that money can buy.
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
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Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.
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A joke is a very serious thing.
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The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.
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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
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A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
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Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
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I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
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Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.
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It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
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Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
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I’ve never been more normal than I am now.
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So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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You may delay, but time will not.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
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After a storm comes a calm.
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In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
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When the solution is simple, God is answering.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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We love the things we love for what they are.
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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
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No tribe unites with another of its own free will.
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We’ll all be riding that streetcar of desire.
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I think the best judge of character; is how much it changes.
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Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
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Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
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When all else fails there’s always delusion.
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People never cease to amaze me.
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If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
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I promote my own self-hatred.
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People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
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Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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I don’t want to be a passenger in my own life.
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I want the world to be better because I was here.
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Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
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A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
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Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
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Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
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A man’s kiss is his signature.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
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Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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‘Classic.’ A book which people praise and don’t read.
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Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
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Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
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Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
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Time does not heal all wounds. Time reveals all wounds for all their gore.
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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An apology never accepted, is better than an apology never said.
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Study the past, if you would divine the future.
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
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A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?
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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
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There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
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If you’re going through hell, keep going.
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Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.
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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
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The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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Solitude is the place of purification.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.
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Your body hears everything your mind says.
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
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The best feeling in the world is knowing your presence and absence both mean something to someone.
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To get where you want to go you can’t only do what you like.
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Old friends are best.
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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
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If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it’s all that matters.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
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Life is not perfect.
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We cannot put off living until we are ready.
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You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.
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Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
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I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
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Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.
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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
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We are rarely proud when we are alone.
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Peace begins with a smile.
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Great and good are seldom the same man.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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An overflow of good converts to bad.
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The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
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Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
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Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.
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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
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Beauty awakens the soul to act.
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Tears are the silent language of grief.
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I don’t have any shame.
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For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been 'No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
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What we think, we become.
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Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
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I’ve never been afraid to fail.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
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True friends stab you in the front.
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Creativity is intelligence having fun.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Without music, life would be a mistake.
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You cannot change me; this is the way I am.
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I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.
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If you don’t appreciate it, you don’t deserve it.
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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
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Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.
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Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.
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In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
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I think, therefore I am.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
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I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
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Character develops itself in the stream of life.
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Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
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Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
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Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
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You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine.
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Our work is never over.
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Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
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An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’.
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True friends stab you in the front.
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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
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Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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Love is a better teacher than duty.
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Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
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The soul never thinks without a picture.
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
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Sex is emotion in motion.
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Don’t believe what I say. Believe what I do.
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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
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The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.
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Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
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Peace begins with a smile.
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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
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Since when has redundancy and overzealous Barnum statements become the authority on wisdom?
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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
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The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
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The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
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Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
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People think you’re crazy if you talk about things they don’t understand.
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Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
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Patience is the art of hoping.
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Common sense is not so common.
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Be as you wish to seem.
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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
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After a storm comes a calm.
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All great achievements require time.
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Life is a long lesson in humility.
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If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn’t thinking.
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There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.
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People inspire you, or they drain you — pick them wisely.
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The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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The first and great commandment is, don’t let them scare you.
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Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.
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Joy always came after pain.
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What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognise the truth.
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The quality of life is more important than life itself.
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Practice will not make you perfect but it will make you better.
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If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
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Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
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A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent.
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Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!
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Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?
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Things do not change; we change.
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Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
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Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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Character is what a man is in the dark.
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He makes no friends who never made a foe.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Silence is a source of great strength.
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Where there is love there is life.
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All I’m gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.
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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.
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We learn little from victory, much from defeat.
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I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
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Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
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Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
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The world knows nothing of its greatest men.
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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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You must do the things you think you cannot do.
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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
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The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.
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If you’re going through hell, keep going.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Life must be lived as play.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
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There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
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I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
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A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Ambition aspires to descend.
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Violence is a calm that disturbs you.
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
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Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
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It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.
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I think; therefore I am.
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Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
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In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
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People are often afraid of things that sound new.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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If I don’t think about it, it won’t drive me crazy.
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Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.
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Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
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‘Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
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We all romanticise the people we adore.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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After a storm comes a calm.
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Love alone could waken love.
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This is our time.
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
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How much of human life is lost in waiting.
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One’s ignorance is one’s chief asset.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty.
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The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
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Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.
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Life is like an analogy.
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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.
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To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
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Don’t plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.
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A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
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Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.
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No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.
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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
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Eighty percent of success is showing up.
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Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.
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Sometimes you have to get up really high to understand how small you are.
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I learn the most from making my own mistakes.
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Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
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A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
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It’s sort of my job to feel good.
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All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.
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I loved the world of imagination.
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When we were told it’s impossible, we knew it’s the right way to be done.
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Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
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The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.
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My life needs editing.
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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If I decide to be an idiot, then I’ll be an idiot on my own accord.
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
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Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
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Peace begins with a smile.
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Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m schizophrenic, and so am I.
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Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.
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Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
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You can make fun of everything.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
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If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
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The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.
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A word to the wise ain’t necessary - it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.
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I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.
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Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
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Life is always a struggle with eternal forces.
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He offered her the world. She said she had her own.
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You’ll never know what you can’t achieve, until you don’t achieve it.
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I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
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Don’t be someone that searches, finds, and then runs away.
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If I had not been an actor. I would be in jail.
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The difference between art and life is that art is more bearable.
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Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
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I am not afraid… I was born to do this.
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I am a dreamer. Seriously, I’m living on another planet.
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One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
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You can’t make people respond.
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If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don’t grow.
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No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
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Bet on good people doing good things.
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I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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A person is born with a liking for profit.
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Why do we fall? So we can pick ourselves back up.
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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.
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You gotta keep the funny intact.
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There is no beauty without some strangeness.
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Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.
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Life is a long lesson in humility.
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Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.
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If you don’t kill your self at least once in your life time, you’re doing it wrong.
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We began as wanderers and we are wanderers still.
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We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
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If at first you do not succeed. Try fucking again. It’s quite simple really.
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go
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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
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I maintain anonymity because the enigma is far more intriguing than the known
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If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.
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Let yourself become living poetry.
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Beauty awakens the soul to act.
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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When someone asks you ‘Why?’, ask them “Why not?’.
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Authority is never without hate.
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A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Knowledge is the life of the mind.
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I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad.
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I like fairy tales, and I like dreaming. I try to weave the reality into the dream.
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Destruction can be beautiful to some people. Don’t ask me why. It just is. And if they can’t find anything to destroy, they destroy themselves.
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Even fate falls into temptation sometimes.
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A wise man’s question contains half the answer.
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Love is blind.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
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To become what one is, one must not have the faintest idea what one is.
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Perfection is a lot of little things done well.
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It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
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Nostalgia for the present.
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My affections, being concentrated on a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.
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That’s all it takes. One lonely, naive man desperate to show off, and a woman clever enough to make him feel special.
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Flipped the world upside down and made it rain upward.
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Great minds discuss great ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
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I never change, I simply become more myself.
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.
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That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.
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It would be so nice if something would make sense for a change.
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There is no recipe, it’s more of a psychology.
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Still waters run deep.
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I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.
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I don’t need you to take care of me, I’m trying to take care of you.
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An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstances. The thread may stretch or tangle but will never break.
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If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
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Time is a great teacher. Unfortunately, it kills all its pupils.
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To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
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To know when you have enough is to be rich beyond measure.
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Everything is nothing with a twist.
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Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
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You will never be good at something, until you realise that you are good enough to try.
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I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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To be perfectly frank, I’m not nearly as smart as you seem to think I am.
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Colour my life with the chaos of trouble.
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Sometimes the only one who believes in you is you, and sometimes that’s all you need.
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Not all who wander are lost.
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It’s different for everyone; because everyone is different.
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My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.
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There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today”
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Nothing is more paralysing than the idea of limitless possibilities. The idea that you can do anything is absolutely terrifying.
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The distance is nothing when one has a motive.
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We accept the love we think we deserve.
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It was a case of me rejecting death and insisting on life.
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To be is to be the value of a variable.
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Change brings opportunity.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.
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A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.
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I think that right now popular music is the worst it’s ever been in history.
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What is forgiven is usually well remembered.
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I don’t want something special. I want something beautifully plain.
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Reading many books and researching hundreds of ideas results in creating something simple, elegant and, possibly, entertaining.
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No matter how good you are, no matter how hard you try and no matter what you do. There will always be someone better than you. Always.
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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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Genuine creativity needs a collision of ideas, something that will never happen if all your thoughts travel in the same direction.
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I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance.
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Whether or not you can become great at something, you can always become better at it.
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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
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My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.
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In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
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Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
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I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
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To go mad, to commit suicide or to continue?
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.
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Why be normal, when you can be; not.
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Even when the flower fades, something takes its place.
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The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.
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All that glitters is not gold.
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Never play cards with a man named Doc.
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The one who admits to making no mistakes, has made the biggest mistake.
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Meaning, however, is no great matter.
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I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.
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The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.
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I think governments are the cancer of civilisation.
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A smile is the universal welcome.
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Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time
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There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact.
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A storm broke lose in my mind.
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We do not mind establishing a long-term truce between us and you.
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An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.
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You can’t pay me off. I’m here to destroy you.
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You look just like you!
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I go to work the minute I open my eyes.
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Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
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I don’t care about money. I really don’t care. I just want to do what I do.
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The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
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All societies are historical.
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The more I know about men the more I like dogs.
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It’s not about what it is. It’s about what it can become.
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All grand thoughts come from the heart.
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Art is made to disturb, science reassures.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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If we’re gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential. We’re capable of doing that.
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A low budget is uncomfortable.
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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
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A good beginning makes a good end.
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The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.
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A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.
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Fashion goes round in circles.
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Where you live, shouldn’t determine whether you live.
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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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You have to make it look different to show you think different
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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
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Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
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Earth. You don’t have to be crazy to live here, but it helps.
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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
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Every time you wake from a dream of a utopia, you get one step closer to reality.
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The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
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The past has to inform the present.
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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
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A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
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Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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All you need is love.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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God does not play dice with the universe.
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It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
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A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.
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A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.
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A world without love is a deadly place.
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No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.
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Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.
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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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A jug fills drop by drop.
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I hate to lose more than I love to win.
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I will either be famous or infamous.
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Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
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I like life. It’s something to do.
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If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong.
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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
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Every rule in any art can be broken.
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
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Action is character.
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After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
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It’s about listening first, then selling.
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I came, I saw, I conquered.
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When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
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Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
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One person’s crazyness is another person’s reality.
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If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.
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Iron hand in a velvet glove.
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
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By enthusiasm one acquires unimaginable strength.
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Knowledge is true opinion.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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In the absence of dreams, we don’t sleep.
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One of the most time-consuming thing is to have an enemy.
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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
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Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.
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Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
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A writer is someone who lacks the character not to write.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Nothing is more sacred than the facts.
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You dont understand your ideas until you try to articulate them to someone else.
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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
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The truth is, it’s ok to curate your life.
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The computer is like a bicycle for our minds.
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I’m gonna live till I die.
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Discipline, work. Work, discipline.
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I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
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Be not simply good - be good for something.
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I love life because what more is there.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
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When the last tree is cut down, the last fish eaten, and the last stream poisoned, you will realise that you cannot eat money.
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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
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Never judge a book by its movie.
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Every culture is defined by its artists.
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Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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Common sense is not so common.
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"The passion culminates in the professional. He would rather play than eat.
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We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
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All of us every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all our lives.
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One word of truth outweighs the whole world.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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The only problem is time.
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Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
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Nothing in life is promised except death.
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Not everybody is perfect, and I don’t think we should be looking for perfect people.
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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.
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Film spectators are quiet vampires.
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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
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True information does good.
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Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
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Trust your ability.
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Persevere and get it done.
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No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
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The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen all at once.
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Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
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Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
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There would be miracles if youth could know and age could do.
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Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration.
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You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
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Your heart’s desire is to be told some mystery.
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It is not enough these days to simply question authority. You have to speak with it, too.
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Men have become the tools of their tools.
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Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
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With self discipline most anything is possible.
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Basically, a writer has a quiet, inner motivation, and doesn’t seek validation in the outwardly visible.
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You can run, but you’ll only die tired.
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These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.
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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
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Go big or go home. Because it’s true. What do you have to lose?
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All music is beautiful.
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Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
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Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.
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Conservation is now a dead word.
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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Never say never.
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When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew
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He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.
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To talk much and arrive nowhere is the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish.
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The light is all around you, but all you see is shadow.
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character.
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Everything you do in life closes a door ahead of you until there is just one door left.
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Less is more.
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Words can inspire.
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Religion teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
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I don’t need a cloak to become invisible.
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Don’t be proud of your ignorance.
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A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
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Please all, and you will please none.
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If it’s worth doing it’s worth overdoing.
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The chance to love and be loved exists no matter where you are.
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Solitude is essentially the discovery and acceptance of our uniqueness.
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Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.
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I kept dreaming of a world I thought I’d never see.
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I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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The things that we love tell us what we are.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
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Bad workmen blame their tools.
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Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others.
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All tragedies become comedies in time.
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Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
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All things are difficult before they are easy.
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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths
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Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.
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I like pushing boundaries.
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A joke is a very serious thing.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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A woman brought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one.
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Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
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The book you don’t read won’t help.
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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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"Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
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Only when we die, do people appreciate our work.
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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I’ll talk. You’ll listen.
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I’m far from being God, but I work God damn hard.
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Beauty awakens the soul to act.
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Call no man happy till he is dead.
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Anger is a short madness.
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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A quiet mind cureth all.
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Failure and mistakes are necessary steps to achieve greatness
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The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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If you’re good at something, never do it for free.
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"We are all governed by deception"
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A child miseducated is a child lost.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
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I want to have things that dont exist.
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You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.
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We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.
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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
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Death was afraid of him, for he had the heart of a lion.
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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
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Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
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Either you run the day or the day runs you.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
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Feelings are environmental, love is heredity.
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Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
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Shit happens and then you live.
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Do not pity the dead. Pity the living and above all, those who live without love.
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I don’t do drugs, I am drugs.
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A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!
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A picture is worth a thousand words.
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You can’t ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event.
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Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.
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Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.
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The best way to get over a woman is to turn her into literature.
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Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
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The new limitations are the human ones of perception.
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Some feel the rain, others just get wet.
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Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child.
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Don’t hustle old people.
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Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.
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You have enemies? Good, that means you stood up for something.
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You can’t fool someone with an experience that they haven’t had before.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.
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An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
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Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one.
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Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
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They never learn. Such a pity.
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One persons crazy, is another’s reality.
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
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If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
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Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.
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I ain’t a bit ashamed of anything.
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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A mother’s children are portraits of herself.
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A day without laughter, is a day wasted.
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Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.
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Stay hungry, stay foolish.
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Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
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O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
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To begin, begin.
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
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The painter imitates nature, the magician imitates God.
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Confusion is not magic.
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
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Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
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Even the devil is a saint to those who don’t know him.
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Translation is the art of failure.
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Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
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A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
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I trust everyone, it’s the devil inside them I dont trust.
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Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
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Just do it.
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Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose, there is no reason not to follow your heart.
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Only the educated are free.
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Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.
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Always desire to learn something useful.
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
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Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
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Think inside the box, everyone is too busy thinking outside it.
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I make the impossible, possible, by making it impossible.
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I want to put a ding in the universe.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
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The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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The wisest men follow their own direction.
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Remember time is relative, don’t get caught up in it.
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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To obtain a man’s opinion of you, make him mad.
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You cannot touch without being touched.
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The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
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Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.
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A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power. George Meredith
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It matters if you just don’t give up.
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I’ll not be changing, but America will.
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If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.
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I’m more patient than all, but less than some.
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When in doubt, C4.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
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I dont drink water, fish fuck in it.
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America is just downright mean.
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I love life because what more is there.
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The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.
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They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
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The less time I have, the better I use it.
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Adults are obsolete children.
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The first and great commandment is: Don’t let them scare you.
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Have your cake and eat it… there’s no other reason to have a cake
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Give light and people will find the way.
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
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When you’re bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.
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Bluffs are the result of the inability to wait. You get tired of waiting for the right hand, so you start to lie. Have patience good things will come.
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We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
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A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
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Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
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In this bright future you can’t forget your past.
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Advertising is legalised lying.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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If something is impossible, it means you haven’t tried hard enough.
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Courage is a kind of salvation.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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Photography is truth. Then cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
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I am still learning.
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Be obscure clearly.
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Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
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Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
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All experience is an arch, to build upon.
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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Art is not a thing; it is a way.
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All you have seen throughout your life, everything you have gazed upon has been massless bundles of particles of condensed energy; which we call Photons. Its all you have ever seen, it’s all you’ll ever see. The rest my friend is up to you, and how you interpret it.
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Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple
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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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Most lies succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them
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We are inclined to believe someone who we have just met, because they have yet to deceive us.
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
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We do not judge the people we love.
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It’s easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission
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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
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A child miseducated is a child lost.
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"It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.
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I wonder how one goes about claiming all of the ‘Unknown Author’ quotes.
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Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.
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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
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I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
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If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you wont ever make something original.
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If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.
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I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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In youth we learn; in age we understand.
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No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
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A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
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Art is never finished, only abandoned.
