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The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.: John Lancaster Spalding
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.: Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.: Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007)
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.: Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
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Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971)
Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good.: Jimmy Wales, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
[Not smoking the cigarette is] a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.: Teena Booth, Falling From Fire
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Problems of privilege are still problems.: John Green (1977 - ), Hollywood, Ending, 2026
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A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.: Alice Thomas Ellis
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.: General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
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Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.: Lee Simonson
Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.: George Ade (1866 - 1944)