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If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.: Elmer Davis (1890 - 1958)
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge-and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.: Steven Spielberg
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I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward.: Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.: Herbert Henry Asquith (1852 - 1928)
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.: Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)
One's life is not as fixed as one believes. Surprises may lie in store for you, the unexpected often tends to happen, sometimes bringing in its train the most delightful change in one's life or circumstances.: Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008
Facts are the enemy of truth.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Man of La Mancha
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.: Amanda Cross (1926 - )
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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.: Henry J. Tillman
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.: Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898), Alice in Wonderland
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