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You know what I want? I want peace. I want a good job and a decent place to live. I want to read books and listen to music and have time to make some female friendships that are going to last. When I wake up in the morning, I want to know that I have a decent shot at being happy.

—Susan Elizabeth Phillips in Ain't She Sweet

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Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.

—Kiera Cass in The Elite

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Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

—Unknown

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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

—Pancho Villa

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Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.

—Margaret Mead

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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

—Woody Allen

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Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.

—Charlotte Whitton

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Love the giver more than the gift.

—Brigham Young

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Things are beautiful if you love them.

—Jean Anouilh

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

—Lily Tomlin

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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

—Winston Churchill

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Nature only knows one thing, and that's the present. Present, present, eternal present, like a big, huge, giant wave — colossal, bright, and beautiful, full of life and death, climbing into the sky, standing in the seas.

—Saul Bellow

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I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. . . . What is new is only new to us.

—Pearl S. Buck

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Do you really believe that humans invented the wheel out of their big brains alone, or fire, or baskets, or tools? Stones rolled downhill; bolts of fire shot from the sky and out of the earth; birds wove and probed and pounded, as did apes and elephants. The sciences that master nature were taught by nature how it could be mastered.

—James Hillman

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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion, or challenge the ideology of a violet. 

—Hal Borland

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