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The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
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No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.: Leon Wieseltier, in The New Republic
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.: Colette (1873 - 1954), Chance Acquaintances, 1952
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When you drink the water, remember the spring.: Chinese Proverb
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I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.: Leona Helmsly
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.: Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.: Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business"
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Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.: Derek Sivers, TED Talk: Weird, or just different? Nov 2009
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.: Alice Kahn
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Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.: Frederick Langbridge (1849 - 1923)
What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Borders of Infinity", 1989
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.: Zig Ziglar, "Secrets of Closing the Sale", 1984
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?: Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
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