There are some people that we didn't forget, but we don't smile any more when they're mentioned. ~Nizar Qabbani
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Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. ~Richard Linklater
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There's a lot to be said for not displacing people. ~Barney Frank
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He who knows how to live, knows enough. ~Spanish Proverb
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It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age. ~Frank Stella
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish 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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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today do not expect to regain her tomorrow. ~French Proverb
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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill. ~S.M. Stirling
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If you chase two rabbits, you catch none. ~Confucius
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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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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb
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We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, "What is real?" Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power, that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. ~Philip K. Dick
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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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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~Chinese Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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The cat was created when the lion sneezed. ~Arabic Proverb
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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