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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for. ~Brian Tracy
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Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant. ~Paul Dirac
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Hope is a risk that must be run. ~Georges Bernanos
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I want to take back at least half of the "I love you"s, because I didn't mean them as much as the other ones. ~David Levithan
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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Who are you? The band sang. I tried to remember but I really couldn't say. ~Janet Fitch
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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. ~George Bernard Shaw
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In Mallrats, you pretty much don't see him sell any weed, really. I don't consider him a big dealer. ~Jason Mewes
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I think to an extent every human being needs to be redeemed somewhat or at least needs to look at themselves and say, "I've made mistakes, I'm off course, I need to change." Which is probably the hardest thing for a human being to do, and maybe that's why it interests me so. ~Joss Whedon
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When I am in situations where I break out of the pattern, it's hard on me. Once you get used to regular scripture study, you miss it if you don't have it. It's like food; you have to have it. I know that I need the scriptures like I need food. I don't miss a regular meal, and I don't miss regular scripture study. ~Henry B. Eyring
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin. ~Arthur Godfrey
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I am horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad. ~Sam Trammell
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Any fiction is bound to be transposed autobiography. ~Elizabeth Bowen
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The First Amendment only says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." It can disrespect all it wants. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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Under the shadow of swords, any plan is good. ~Mehmet Murat Ildan
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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree. ~Caroline Knapp
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. ~Caleb Cushing
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We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend. ~Tony Snow
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me. ~Chuck Mangione
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Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together. ~Willie Nelson
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