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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

—Seneca

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He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

—Thomas à Kempis

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I think the world is run by C students.

—Al McGuire

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It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.

—Margaret Bonnano

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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

—Carl Sagan

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It was another of those big life-changing moments when you didn’t know what the next ten seconds would bring but you knew that nothing would ever be the same after.

—Sarra Manning in Unsticky

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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

—Sammy Davis, Jr.

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The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.

—Dan Quisenberry

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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

—Christopher Hampton

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There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

—Alfred Korzybski

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When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.

—Bertrand Russell

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To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.

—Laurence J. Peter

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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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