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"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
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-- Thomas Carlyle He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Fedje More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
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To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
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He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
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-- Semisonic, Closing Time What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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-- Chekhov The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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-- Sydney Smith Wit is educated insolence.
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