In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence. ~Gary Ross
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There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. ~Isaac Asimov
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It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. ~English Proverb
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God help the rich man, let the poor man beg. ~English Proverb
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Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. ~Sarah Michelle Gellar
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. ~Louisa May Alcott
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ~Paulo Coelho
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I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another. ~Russell M. Nelson
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. ~Ted Williams
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick. ~Adam Driver
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As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity; "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. ~Thorstein Veblen
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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Visits always give pleasure, if not the arrival, the departure. ~Portuguese Proverb
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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You are what you "tweet".~ Internet Proverb
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He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone and avoided it as far as possible; he didn't really want to become any better acquainted with himself. He knew that if he wanted to show his talents to best advantage, he needed to strike sparks off other people to fan the flames of warmth and exuberance in his heart. On his own he was frosty, no use to himself at all, like a match left lying in its box. ~Stefan Zweig
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
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When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony. ~Helen Nielsen
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~Paul Michael Glaser
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Always leave a little room for a mistake. ~Chinese Proverb
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