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The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.: Jim Bishop, New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.: Japanese Proverb
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It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's weblog, 04-11-2006
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.: Carrie Fisher (1956 - )
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.: Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
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It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them.: Salma Hayek, Conversation with Salma Hayek, 2002
I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn’t get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn’t gotten to be a person yet.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.: Peter Borden
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.: Rita Mae Brown
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.: Jimmy Buffett
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Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.: Jewish Proverb
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), The Song of the Lark
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.: Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)