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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

—Clare Boothe Luce

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That's what you do when you want something. You don't look for reasons why it won't work. You look for reasons why it will.

—Taylor Jenkins Reid in Maybe in Another Life

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The secret to happiness…be satisfied and be grateful.

—Mitch Albom in Have a Little Faith

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I'm not sure anybody ever gets completely over their first love, and that still rankles. Part of me still wants to know what was wrong with me. What I was lacking.

—Stephen King in Joyland

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It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.

—Khaled Hosseini in The Kite Runner

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Don't be surprised by your greatness. Be surprised that no one expected it.

—Rebecca Maizel in Infinite Days

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I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love.

—Yann Martel in Life of Pi

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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

—Oscar Wilde

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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager.

—William S. Burroughs

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Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.

—Robert Anthony

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Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

—Herbert Read

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I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.

—Mitch Hedberg

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They do not love that do not show their love.

—William Shakespeare

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