This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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After all the evidence is in, after you've run all the facts by everything you know, and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith. ~Christopher Moore
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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I invented the cordless extension cord. ~Steven Wright
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. ~Tom Robbins
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Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice. ~Voltaire
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I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me. ~Moon Unit Zappa
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity, will not attain great prosperity. ~Tibetan Proverb
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid. ~Rafael Nadal
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You already possess everything necessary to become great. ~Native American Proverb
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Will is stronger than fact; it can mold and overcome fact. ~H. G. Wells
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick. ~Adam Driver
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My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all. ~Alice Eve
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We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love. ~Suzanne Collins
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My real heroes have always been sports-writers. ~Dan Jenkins
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that. ~U.G. Krishnamurti
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