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Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.: Eric Gibson, in The Wall Street Journal
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1820
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Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.: Sharon Salzberg
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.: Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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Imagination is more important than knowledge...: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.: Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.: Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.: Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939), ''Jam-Tomorrow' Progressives,' New Republic, December 15, 1937
Now is the time for all good men to come to.: Walt Kelly (1913 - 1973), "Pogo" (comic strip)
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays (1928), "Dreams and Facts"
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.: George Steiner
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.: Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)
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Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes... We're all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void.: Joss Whedon, Twitter, 06-27-13
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