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Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.: Stanislaw Lem (1921 - 2006)
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The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.: Willie Tyler
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle i.e. being human.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.: Charles De Secondat (1689 - 1755)
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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.: Jean de la Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.: Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
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The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.: Eric Berne (1910 - 1970)
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)
There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of the universe. There will be no puzzles anymore. To me it'd be really, really tragic because I think one of the most exciting things is this feeling of mystery, feeling of awe, the feeling of looking at a little live thing and being amazed by it and how its emerged through these hundreds of years of evolution and there it is and it is perfect and why.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
My toughest fight was with my first wife.: Muhammad Ali (1942 - )
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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.: New York City detective
Most people see themselves a certain way their entire lives. When they go through a massive change, such as losing weight, they have to learn to see themselves in a new way. It is one of the biggest struggles her members deal with on their journey.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.: Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 1642
That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 01-04-07
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Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.: Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)