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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
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You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
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You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
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-- Fred Allen I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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