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How many scholars are there whose single book or article has generated more intellectual energy than the collected works of other, quantitatively far more 'productive,' scholars? The commensurating device known as the 'tape measure' may tell us that a Vermeer interior and a cow plop are both twenty inches across; there, however, the similarity ends.

—James C. Scott in Two Cheers for Anarchism

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The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.

—Francesca Lia Block in Pink Smog

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I think if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I've known you for a short time, but I feel like I've known you forever.

—J.A. Redmerski in The Edge of Never

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Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

—Dale Carnegie

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If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

—Joan Rivers

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True love doesn't always last. It doesn't always have to be for a lifetime.

—Taylor Jenkins Reid in One True Loves

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What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.

—Terry McMillan in Getting to Happy

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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

—Isaac Newton

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The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

—Bertrand Russell

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He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

—Dylan Thomas

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Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

—Erma Bombeck

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Kissing him was like seeing the ocean for the first time. Meeting something so big it made you feel small.

—Cambria Hebert in #Junkie

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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

—Oscar Wilde

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In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

—Helen Rowland

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He had healed me when I was sure nothing ever could.

—Abbi Glines in Hold On Tight

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