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- When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005
- Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997), -- Letter to U.S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.
- When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943)
- America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
- John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
- I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
- Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), Diary, 17 February 1922
- Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.
- Orson Scott Card (1951 - ), Ender's Game
- I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
- Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)
- The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
- John Burroughs (1837 - 1921), Birds and Poets, 1887
- Golf isn't a game, it's a choice that one makes with one's life.
- Charles Rosin, Northern Exposure, Aurora Borealis, 1990
- Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
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