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Children are all foreigners.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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I don't think there is a proper way to celebrate something which makes you happy.: Matthew Oliphant, Usability Works, 04-01-2006
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.: Mary Chase (1887 - 1973), Jimmy Stewart in "Harvey", 1950
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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.: Anne-Sophie Swetchine, The Writings of Madame Swetchine, 1869
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.: Sir Julian Huxley (1887 - 1975)
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It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.: Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
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One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.: Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day, 1989
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.: Walter Winchell (1897 - 1972)
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There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
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All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, What I Know For Sure, January 2004
When you're through changing, you're through.: Bruce Barton