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School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.: Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 10-09-11
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I really feel as if the things we create together are not things we devised, but things we discovered, as if, in some sense, they were always there in us, waiting to be revealed, like the figure of Mercury waiting in a rough lump of marble.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.: Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC)
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Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
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Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.: George McDonald
Eye contact is the best accessory.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Cat's Cradle
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.: Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.: A. J. Kitt
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Ask, and it shall be given you; Seek, and ye shall find; Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.: Bible, New Testament, Matthew 7:7
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.: Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.: George Steiner
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Knowledge is power.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
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Silence is a text easy to misread.: A. A. Attanasio, 'The Eagle and the Sword'
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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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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), 'Morals,' 100 A.D.