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The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.: Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878)
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956), in a letter to Groucho Marx, 1953
To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.: Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
Anyone can lose a few pounds, but not everyone has the tools to stick with it.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.: Anne Tyler (1941 - )
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992), Salvor Hardin in "Foundation"
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934), letter to her brother, 1894
We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Nomination Acceptance Speech, 08-28-08
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.: Robert Orben
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.: Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)
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To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Communism is like one big phone company.: Lenny Bruce (1923 - 1966)
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