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- I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward.
- Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
- The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.
- Seth MacFarlane, The Family Guy
- Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.
- Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Dilbert Blog
- Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.
- Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), My Antonia
- It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
- Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
- If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), Mere Christianity
- I always like a good math solution to any love problem.
- Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, Take Me Out To The Ballgame, 1999
- The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.
- John Clarke, Economist
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