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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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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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A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb
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proverbiosMaking a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. ~Margaret Heffernan
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We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. ~Barbara Jordan
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I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies. ~Anna Kournikova
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A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If the knitter is weary the baby will have no new bonnet. ~Irish Proverb
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Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
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We are supernaturalists first, not naturalists. The only reason we feel compelled to accommodate science is that science says we ought to. But it is science that should accommodate revelation. Revelation has been around much longer. ~Matt Chandler
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Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
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Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
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Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to at best three years. ~Helen Fisher
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Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ~Teri Hatcher
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Keep a thing for seven years and you will find a use for it. ~Irish Proverb
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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If you were to open up a baby's head, and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should; you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland. ~Dave Barry
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