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If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

—Elbert Hubbard

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I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

—Henry James

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The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

—Edwin Louis Cole

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When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

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Sometimes the decisions that seem the most illogical at the time, later on turn out to be the best decisions of our lives.

—Madeleine Beckett in Color of Loneliness

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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

—Ernest Hemingway

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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

—Albert Camus

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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

—Horace Walpole

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The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

—Andre Malraux

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

—Bertrand Russell

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Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

—Wilson Mizner

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A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

—Fred Allen

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If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

—Don Marquis

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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

—P.G. Wodehouse

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That’s what life is about: People come and go.

—Cecelia Ahern in Love, Rosie

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