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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

—Albert Camus

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Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

—Georges Bernanos

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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

—W. C. Fields

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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

—Daniel J. Boorstin

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It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon and More

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People protect what they love.

—Jacques Yves Cousteau

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

—Anne Frank

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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

—H. L. Mencken

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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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