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- Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
- Henry Winkler (1945 - )
- Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.
- Herbert W. Boyer, co-founder of Genentech, Inc.
- Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
- Jane Howard, "Families"
- One kind word can warm three winter months.
- Japanese proverb
- Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.
- Joan Didion (1934 - ), "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"
- I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- John Locke (1632 - 1704)
- No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
- Leon Wieseltier, in The New Republic
- If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Borders of Infinity", 1989
- War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
- Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
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