We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. ~Anthony Doerr
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The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. ~Richard Reti
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I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do. ~John Cena
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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I wear my shadows where they are harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I am travelling toward light. ~Bruce Cockburn
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Write in the sand the flaws of your friend. ~Pythagoras
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Contrary to conventional military and game theory, the most effective offense is sometimes a direct attack against your political opponent's greatest strength; not his weaknesses; to place him immediately on the defensive. ~Mark McKinnon
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I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
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When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats. ~Jill Lepore
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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Let your heart guide your head in evil matters. ~Spanish Proverb
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I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi Proverb
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When a man mentally undresses a woman it's merely sex; but when a woman mentally dresses a man he's in dire danger of matrimony. ~Helen Nielsen
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ~Max Beerbohm
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
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He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son. ~John Locke
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I have a natural curiosity for people. ~Nicholas Haslam
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. ~George McGovern
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I don't pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says. ~Dick Cheney
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