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- Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
- Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC)
- No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.
- Leo Buscaglia (1925 - 1998)
- I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
- Martha Washington (1732 - 1802)
- Nobody ever died of laughter.
- Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)
- It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.
- George Harrison (1943 - 2001)
- I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
- Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.
- Joe Gores
- It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.
- Anne Bronte (1820 - 1849), Agnes Grey
- Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
- E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970), "A Room with a View"
- The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.
- Edward M. Kennedy (1932 - ), Democratic National Convention, 1980
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