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Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
Careful. We don't want to learn from this.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), "Calvin and Hobbes"
You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but A Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.: P. D. James, Time to Be in Earnest
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It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.: Emiliano Zapata (1877 - 1919)
My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.: Spanish Proverb
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Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.: Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan, 2009
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Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.: Saki (1870 - 1916)
I'm a fan of laundry: the smell of fabric softener, the warm clothes in your hands. It's so good.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.: Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957)
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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Exemplary Novels (1613)
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I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.: Rosie O'Donnell, Today Show interview, 04-08-08
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People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.: M. C. Richards
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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.: Katherine Paterson, The Spying Heart, 1989
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
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