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The highest result of education is tolerance.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), 'Optimism,' 1903
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I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.: Unknown
It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.: Unknown
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.: Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
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...myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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You try to give away what you want yourself.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.: Ken Rockwell, Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.: Madonna (1958 - )
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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It has all been very interesting.: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762), last words, 1762
When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.: Lenny Bruce (1923 - 1966)
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.: Chinese Proverb
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People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.: Robert Byrne
If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.: George E. Woodberry
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.: Miriam Beard
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If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.: African Proverb
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