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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
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It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.: Woody Allen (1935 - ), Without Feathers, 1976
Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Lies are like children: they're hard work, but it's worth it because the future depends on them.: Pam Davis, House M.D., It's A Wonderful Lie, 2008
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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.: Shakti Gawain
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Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.: William Feather (1908 - 1976)
If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.: Matthew V. Lewis, House M.D., Last Resort, 2008
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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.: Bayard Taylor
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
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It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)