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I don’t know what comes next. I can’t know, until I’ve walked the road I’ve chosen. I don’t have a plan, and there is no map for this. It’s terrifying, but there’s a spark of exhilaration that gives me hope that the choice I just made could turn out to be right and this feels infinitely better than the weight of regret.

—Jessi Kirby in Golden

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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

—Walter Bagehot

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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

—Soren Kierkegaard

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Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

—Charles Baudelaire

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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

—Clare Booth Luce

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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

—Edward De Bono

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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

—Voltaire

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I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.

—A. Whitney Brown

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Ignoring things didn’t make them go away. It only made it harder to face them when they finally came around.

—A. Meredith Walters in Light in the Shadows

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In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

—Erich Fromm

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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

—Christopher Morley

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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

—James Madison

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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

—Samuel Johnson

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