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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

—Umberto Eco

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It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

—Alfred Adler

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To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

—François Rabelais

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A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

—George Wald

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Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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You can’t be responsible for anyone but you. We all make our own decisions, and pay our own consequences. You can love someone, but you can’t fix them.

—Lyla Payne in By Referral Only

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

—George Jean Nathan

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

—Willem de Kooning

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No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

—Edward Abbey

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Mom always told me there are two kinds of love in this world: the steady breeze, and the hurricane.

—Melody Grace in Unbroken

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

—Franz Kafka

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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

—Henri Frederic Amiel

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Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.

—Peter da Silva

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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

—Margaret Thatcher

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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