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Every hero becomes a bore at last.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Sometimes you feel other people's pain worse than your own. We're armored against our own troubles. We can't afford to give in to despair. Then you see someone else struggling, and it breaks your... heart.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.: Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
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For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.: Ingrid Bengis
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Leave well - even 'pretty well' - alone: that is what I learn as I get old.: Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them.: Gene McSweeney, Grey Water Photography, 06-04-2006
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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.: John M. Ford
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, sc. 1
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Art is science made clear.: Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible.: Eli Attie, House M.D., Dying Changes Everything, 2008
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I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.: David Foster, House M.D., TB or Not TB, 2005
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Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.: Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
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