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Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.: Unknown
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.: Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)
What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.: Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Even God cannot change the past.: Agathon (448 BC - 400 BC)
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), to his students
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.: The Dalai Lama (1935 - )
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My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping.: Rita Rudner
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.: Tom Bissell, Truth in Oxiana, 2004
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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
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Maybe it's easier to like someone else's life, and live vicariously through it, than take some responsiblity to change our lives into lives we might like.: Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.: Unknown
The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing, generosity, thoughtfulness, a talent for civilized conversation.: Francine Du Plessix Gray
That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.: Simone de Beauvoir
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5