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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"
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I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.: Sylvia Robinson
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, March 17, 1911
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By the work one knows the workmen.: Jean De La Fontaine (1621 - 1695)
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What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.: Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004), Against Interpretation, 1966
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What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, #1615, March 2010
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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.: Ed Gardner
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Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.: Margaret Lee Runbeck
Above all things, reverence yourself.: Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.: Alban Goodier
When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.: Margaret Wheatley
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.: Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005), Time magazine, Feb. 12, 1979
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Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.: Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
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Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.: Judy Garland (1922 - 1969), to her daughter, Liza Minelli
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.: Anita Roddick, A Revolution in Kindness, 2003
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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