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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), The Crisis, no. 1
The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.: Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.: Marilyn vos Savant
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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.: David Cronenberg, Rocketboom, 07-19-06
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A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough for Love, 1978
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For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, London, November 9, 1954
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Living in a vacuum sucks.: Adrienne E. Gusoff
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.: Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)
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Autumn is the bite of the harvest apple.: Christina Petrowsky
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.: Charles Buxton
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.: Walter Pater (1839 - 1894), 1873
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Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.: Marvin Minsky
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One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.: Stephen Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.: Mae West (1892 - 1980)
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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