A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. ~Virginia Postrel
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
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The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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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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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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All my friends I've known since I was really little. ~Leona Lewis
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Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. ~Chinese Proverb
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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Do bad and remember, do good and forget. ~Algerian Proverb
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world, but very few real friends. ~Chinese Proverb
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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. ~English Proverb
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. ~Benjamin Franklin
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What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away. ~Proverb
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They were close to the end of the beginning... ~Stephen King
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed. ~Kent McCord
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