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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.

—Richard Feynman

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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

—e. e. cummings

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Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

—Kin Hubbard

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Friends: It’s not the quantity, but the quality that matters. You will meet a lot of people throughout your life, not everyone will be your friend. That’s okay. You’ll know when you meet a true friend. True friends are trusting and loyal. They are there for you during good and bad times.

—Alison G. Bailey in Present Perfect

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Be obscure clearly.

—E. B. White

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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

—George Jean Nathan

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Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

—Jules Renard

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Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

—Agatha Christie

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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

—Charles Baudelaire

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The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

—Audrey Hepburn

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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

—Albert Einstein

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Why be a man when you can be a success?

—Bertolt Brecht

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I believe that people come into your life and then some go. I also think there’s a purpose as to why they were in your life at all. Each one takes a piece of you when they go. Some leave pieces of themselves with you. Sometimes it’s wisdom, or maybe, it’s a lesson.

—Shey Stahl in Waiting for You

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Ambition can creep as well as soar.

—Edmund Burke

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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

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