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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.: Burnadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul, 1969
If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don't like you.: Tina Fey, Golden Globes Acceptance Speech, 2009
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Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.: Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939), Sitting on the World, 1924
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.: Stanley Kunitz, O Magazine, September 2003
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Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963
There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.: Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.: Arnold Bennett
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.: Sir Richard Steele
You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.: Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain In Eruption
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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
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I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Cat Orgy, 1999
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Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.: Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.: W. N. Taylor
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.: Robert Fripp
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Though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune!: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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