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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

—Thomas Jefferson

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What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?

—Fred Allen

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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.

—Osho in Courage

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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

—Pablo Picasso

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When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.

—Alan Alda

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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

—William Makepeace Thackeray

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How pleasant to escape for an hour or two into the company of a treasured friend.

—Julie Klassen in The Secret of Pembrooke Park

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When you ignore a man's blatant disrespect it only guarantees it will continue.

—Leslie Braswell in Get the Guy

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That was the trouble of telling someone all your truths. They could use them to tear you apart.

—Brenda Novak in Sweet Seduction Boxed Set

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I had feared that love would make me vulnerable. Instead I felt empowered.

—Amy Plum in Die for Me

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I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.

—Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar

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No one's ever looked at me the way he looks at me. I feel a silent rumble in my gut and I know something's just changed in me forever. I'll never be able to go back to comfortable and nice after feeling whatever it is burning between us. It scares the hell out of me and draws me in at the same time.

—Vi Keeland in Worth the Fight

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Sometimes life turns out hard. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, just when you think it's done its worst, it comes back and takes another chunk.

—M.L. Stedman in The Light Between Oceans

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I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.

—Steven Pearl

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