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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.: Eugene S. Wilson
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.: Margaret Fairless Barber
I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.: Charles Rosin, Northern Exposure, Aurora Borealis, 1990
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Biography lends to death a new terror.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.: Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), quoted in New York Times, March 19, 1940
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Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.: Unknown
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What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.: Cher (1946 - )
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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If you can break down those walls you’ve spent so many years building to protect yourself, you can achieve anything.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )
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I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.: Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.: Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.: Swedish Proverb
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Oppression can only survive through silence.: Carmen de Monteflores
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