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Food is the most primitive form of comfort.: Sheila Graham
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How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.: Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.: Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
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Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971)
The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.: Dan Millman
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Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.: Simone Weil (1909 - 1943), Gravity and Grace, 1947
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The phrase "action speaks louder than words," is most easily proven by a swift kick to the genitals.: Devin J. Monroe (1983 - )
You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.: Bob Ross (1942 - 1995), Best of Joy of Painting, Winter Elegance
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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.: Denise Mina, Hellblazer: Empathy is the Enemy, 2006
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.: J. G. Holland
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Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.: Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
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A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.: Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850), Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845
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Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.: Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager.": William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)