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One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

—Loren Eiseley

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A painting that is well composed is half finished.

—Pierre Bonnard

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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

—Gloria Steinem

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To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.

—Albert Einstein

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Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

—Don Marquis

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The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them.

—Lily Tomlin

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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

—Anaïs Nin

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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

—Jack Benny

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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

—Thomas Jefferson

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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

—Mark Twain

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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

—Cullen Hightower

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

—Paul Valéry

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