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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

—E. B. White

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No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

—Denis Diderot

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What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

—Lionel Trilling

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I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.

—Noel Coward

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Being with him would be the most epic moment of my life. I knew that. But then what? I would find a way to move on? Love someone else? Could I ever love someone else?

—Abbi Glines in Hold On Tight

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Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness?

—Judith McNaught in Almost Heaven

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I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.

—Jack Handey

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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

—Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

—Pablo Picasso

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Time can be slowed if you live deliberately. If you stop and watch sunsets. If you spend time sitting on porches listening to the woods. If you give in to the reality of the seasons.

—Thomas Christopher Greene in I'll Never Be Long Gone

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I realized that there were times when we talked not because we needed to communicate anything important, but simply because we each drew comfort from the other's voice.

—Nicholas Sparks in Three Weeks With My Brother

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It's hard to be the person who gets left behind, and never the person who gets to do the leaving.

—Alexandra Bracken in In Time

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If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

—Philip Pullman in Clockwork

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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

—William Shakespeare

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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

—Albert Einstein

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