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- I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior.
- Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
- I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
- Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
- People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything.
- Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954), Letter to Nickolas Muray, 02-27-1939
- I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.
- Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
- Conspicuous by its absence.
- John Russell, Address to London electors, April 6, 1859
- Total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD), On the Good of Marriage, c. 401 AD
- The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the part.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Don Quixote, 1605
- However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), Maxims, 1665
- In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
- Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
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