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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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As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.

—Hagar the Horrible

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.

—Billy Graham

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I wasn't going to wait around for some prince, when I could very well save myself.

—Jodi Picoult in Plain Truth

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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

—Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

—Thomas Jefferson

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It feels like a punch. Tears fill my eyes, and I wonder how I could be upset over losing something I never had.

—Jodi Picoult in Between the Lines

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Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

—Ambrose Bierce

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