If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. ~Edward Snowden
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love. ~English Proverb
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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
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So, we just kind of created our own thing and that is part of the beauty of Athens; is that it is so off the map and there is no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. ~Michael Stipe
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With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. ~Dorothy Denning
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision. ~Charles Stanley
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same. ~Chinese Proverb
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To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor. ~Paul A. Baran
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Whatever you choose you will repent because the other will remain and haunt you. If one needs absolute freedom then choiceless awareness is the only thing. ~Rajneesh
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Bambi, to a kid, was scary. ~Billy Crystal
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In climbing, having confidence in your partners is no small concern. One climber's actions can affect the welfare of the entire team. ~Jon Krakauer
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Ideas without execution are hallucinations. ~Thomas A. Edison
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford
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The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. ~Roger Avary
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The West is dead; you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her. ~Charles Marion Russell
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff. ~Mindy Kaling
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Never strike your wife, even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb
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A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. ~Kathie Lee Gifford
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