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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

—Miss Piggy

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If I can't change something, I don't waste energy on it.

—Jennifer Castle in The Beginning of After

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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

—Marvin Minsky

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Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

—Vladimir Nabokov

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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

—H. L. Mencken

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Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

—Mark Twain

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Love is doing a kindness for someone else, not expecting to receive anything in return.

—Sylvain Reynard in Gabriel's Rapture

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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

—Abraham Lincoln

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Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

—Francis Bacon

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but raptors are pretty dang scary.

—Devin J. Monroe

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I'd rather look back and regret something I did when I was young and crazy, than look back and regret something I never had the courage to do, and realize it's too late.

—Cherrie Lynn in Rock Me

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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

—Milton Friedman

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Bad things happen to everyone. Not that this was an excuse or a justification for wronging another human being. Still, all humans had this shared experience—that of suffering. No human being left this world without shedding a tear, or feeling pain, or wading into the sea of sorrow.

—Sylvain Reynard in Gabriel's Inferno 

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