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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.: Doris Lessing
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.: Brendan Gill
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Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.: Benjamin H. Brewster (1816 - 1888)
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996), Cosmos (Blues for a Red Planet)
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Never judge a book by its movie.: J. W. Eagan
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When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.: Unknown
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.: Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)
I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.: Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958)
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We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.: Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.: Audre Lorde
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.: Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook
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What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.: Andre Agassi (1970 - ), on "Charlie Rose"
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.: Zig Ziglar, "Secrets of Closing the Sale", 1984