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- Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
- Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)
- Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
- Matt Groening (1954 - ), "Life in Hell"
- Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)
- Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
- John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses"
- Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), (attributed; also attributed to Ann Landers)
- When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
- Bernard Bailey
- 'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.
- George Ade (1866 - 1944), "The Steel Box", 1898
- If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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