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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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Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.

—Rachel Carson

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