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- Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.
- Josh Lieb, I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President, 2009
- There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
- Eva Hoffman
- Women being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the walls.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act I, sc. 1
- We are not ourselves when nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind to suffer with the body.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), King Lear, Act II, sc. 4
- The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry IV, Part I, Act I, sc. 2
- Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet LVI
- There is no duty we so much underrate as the as the duty of being happy.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), An Apology for Idlers, 1874
- Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labor.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
- Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
- Cesare Pavese (1908 - 1950)
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