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Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.

—John Andrew Holmes

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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

—Dan Rather

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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

—Josh Billings

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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

—Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

—Will Rogers

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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.

—Anatole France

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It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

—John Updike in My Father’s Tears and Other Stories

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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

—Paul Valéry

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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

—E. B. White

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Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

—G. K. Chesterton

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When you can’t be honest with people, you can’t ever relax with them.

—Dorothy Koomson in My Best Friend’s Girl

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The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

—Daniel Webster

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I don’t think that anything happens by coincidence. No one is here by accident. Everyone who crosses our path has a message for us. Otherwise they would have taken another path, or left earlier or later. The fact that these people are here means that they are here for some reason.

—James Redfield in The Celestine Prophecy

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