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Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.: Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
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The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work.: Wayne Dyer
Nothing ever goes away.: Barry Commoner (1917 - )
I don't really trust a sane person.: Lyle Alzado (1949 - 1992)
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One is obliged to do a great deal of kissing in my line of work: air kissing, [butt] kissing, kissing up, and of course actual kissing. Much like hookers, actors have to do it with people we may not like or even know.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-25-06
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If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.: Bill Vaughan
If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.: Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.: Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.: Eckhart Tolle
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.: David Russell
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts as our own, but they probably are.: James Harvey Robinson
We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.: Vincent Canby, on the Academy Awards
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If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.: John Abrams, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place