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-- Vincent Van Gogh Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
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-- Samuel Hoffenstein I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
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At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
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-- Eleanor Roosevelt You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Travel and Tourism Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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-- Scottish Proverb Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
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