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Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

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Be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore.

—Laurell K. Hamilton in A Stroke of Midnight

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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

—Winston Churchill

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The best time to plant an oak tree was twenty-five years ago. The second best time is today.

—James Carville

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Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love

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If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

—Dwight L. Moody

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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

—Cyril Connolly

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I wanted someone to love who would stay: stay and be there, always.

—Audrey Niffenegger in The Time Traveler’s Wife

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I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I’d lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be.

—Marian Keyes in Anybody Out There?

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Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

—Calvin Coolidge

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I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.

—David Levithan in Every You, Every Me

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But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

—Amelia Barr

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

—Soren Kierkegaard

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

—Victor Borge

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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

—H. L. Mencken

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