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It's when that fear goes away that you know you've found the right person to risk everything for.

—Catherine Bybee in Not Quite Mine

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I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

—Joanne Harris in Five Quarters of the Orange

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No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

—Hosea Ballou

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Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.

—Clarence Day

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Isn't that what we all want? To be with someone who consumes us? Who makes us want to give them all that we are, even though it's terrifying?

—Lisa Renee Jones in All of Me

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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

—Khaled Hosseini in The Kite Runner

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The thing about surviving something truly tragic is that it changes your expectations forever. You make do with very little. You're grateful for crumbs. You make the best of small mercies. You endure large trials. You understand that life owes you nothing. You expect nothing, and when something wonderful happens, you don't trust it.

—Katy Regnery

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I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to her one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong—and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way too late in the game.

—Emily Giffin in Baby Proof

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Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up.

—David Shore

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Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

—Evan Esar

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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

—Bertrand Russell

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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

—Horace

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A loafer always has the correct time.

—Kin Hubbard

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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

—E. M. Forster

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To say that we are all equally important seems a redundancy, and yet how often do any of us act as if it were true?

—Jean Vanier

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