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It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them.: Salma Hayek, Conversation with Salma Hayek, 2002
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004), Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.: Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906), An Enemy of the People, 1882
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.: Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
The meal is not over when I'm full. The meal is over when I hate myself.: Louis C. K., Louis C. K.: Chewed Up, 2008
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.: Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993
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Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.: Louis Schwartzberg, TED, the hidden beauty of pollination, March 2011
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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside; Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny'd.: Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Home is where the heart is, so your real home's in your chest.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.: Cynthia Ozick
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
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I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.: Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)
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Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.: Carlos A. Urbizo
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)
I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.: John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
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When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
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