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-- Bierce, A Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
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-- Beau Brummel Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
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-- H. L. Mencken Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
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-- Mike Adams When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
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I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
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-- Benjamin Franklin Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
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The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
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-- Helen Hayes No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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