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Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.: Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)
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An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
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I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.: Anwar el-Sadat (1918 - 1981)
Variety is the soul of pleasure.: Aphra Behn
If you're afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart: Nobody's perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don't work as well as you think they do.: Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, April 2004
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
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Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), Nausea (1938) "Vendredi"
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.: W.E.B. Du Bois, Speech at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, August 1906
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Too much of a good thing is wonderful.: Mae West (1892 - 1980)
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.: Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)
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In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.: Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Tweek Vs. Craig, 1999
Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.: Jesse Stuart
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There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.: Paul Theroux (1941 - ), in The Washington Post
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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)