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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.: Nelson Mandela (1918 - ), 'A Long Walk to Freedom'
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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.: David Viscott, How to Live with Another Person, 1974
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The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "Mostly Harmless"
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Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
There it was, hidden in alphabetical order.: Rita Holt
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.: Minor White
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Don't let yourself forget what it's like to be sixteen.: Anonymous
It is hard work, but there is happiness in it.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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)
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.: Carolyn Heilbrun (1926 - )
Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.: M. C. Richards
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.: Anonymous
Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
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There are more of them than us.: Herb Caen
I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.: Robert Bloch (1917 - 1994)
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"
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