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That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.: Michael Pritchard
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You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.: Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
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Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.: Warren Buffett (1930 - )
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Art has never been made while thinking of art.: Niko Stumpo, The Wooster Collective, December 2006
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We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.: Annie Lennox
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If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.: Unknown, Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Consumer's Guide, 1897
Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.: Maxims of Ptahhotep, 3400 B.C.
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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.: Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.: Bob Edwards
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)