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I can’t talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. I am not a mathematician, but I know this: There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There’s .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I’m likely to get. But, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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If you bow at all, bow low.: Chinese Proverb
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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, November 2009
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I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Self-Reliance
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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An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.: Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Constantine Fitzgibbon, Life of Dylan Thomas (1965)
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
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I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.: Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773), letter to his godson, December 18, 1765
This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.: Wolfgang Pauli (1900 - 1958), on a paper submitted by a physicist colleague
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.: Alan Turing (1912 - 1954)
Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.: The Mishnah