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Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.: Tom Robbins (1936 - )
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If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.: David Shore, House M.D., One Day, One Room, 2007
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.: Franklin P. Jones
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My friends are my estate.: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.: Alice Walker (1944 - ), Living by the Word, 1988
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.: Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.: Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation
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Food is our common ground, a universal experience.: James Beard
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.: Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan, 2009
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I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.: A. Whitney Brown
Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.: Leo Rosten (1908 - )
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Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.: Georges Rouault (1871 - 1958)
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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