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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

—Benjamin Franklin

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Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

—Douglas Adams

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

—William Law

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As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

—Robert Quillen

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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

—Randall Jarrell

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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

—Oscar Wilde

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When you are your own best friend, you don’t endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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In love there are two things - bodies and words.

—Joyce Carol Oates

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I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

—Alvin Toffler

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Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

—Ellen Goodman

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You shouldn’t try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you’re supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you’re supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it’s necessary because it’s all part of you getting to the next part of yourself.

—Cecelia Ahern in The Book of Tomorrow

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All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

—Ovid

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Talent works, genius creates.

—Robert Schumann

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Always live in the ugliest house on the street — then you don't have to look at it.

—David Hockney

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