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-- Benjamin Tillett Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
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-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
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-- Phyllis Diller I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
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-- Phillip Brooks "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
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-- Christopher Morley In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
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Work is a four-letter word.
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke Why don't you write books people can read?
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We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
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"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
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