I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child was not so happy with them. ~Elizabeth Edwards
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Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. ~Chinese Proverb
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained, this is free. ~Veronica Roth
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The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
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People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both. ~Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East. ~Bernie Sanders
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I live for now, not for what happens after I die. ~Liam Gallagher
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story. ~Ian Somerhalder
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Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound. ~Carolina Herrera
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens. ~George Stigler
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. ~Spanish Proverb
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By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. ~John Podhoretz
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go. ~Charles Bukowski
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The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. ~Isaac Asimov
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I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ~Chinese Proverb
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I like to play music; play guitar; I love that. Play some golf in the summer. Just relax, enjoy the summer. That's nice. ~Henrik Lundqvist
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I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out. ~Yelawolf
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full. ~Spanish Proverb
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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