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We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.: H. Mumford Jones (1892 - 1980)
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.: Willie Tyler
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
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Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Spring Break, 1991
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The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.: Henry S. Haskins
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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Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.: The Dhammapada
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Ike's Wee Wee, 1998
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.: Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984), quoted by Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 1982
It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.: Susan Partnow
When you get right down to it, what we all need is a place to go... A place where we can escape the noise of our lives and just relax.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.: Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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[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, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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