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Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.

—Italian proverb

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It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

—Jerry Garcia

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I don't need a baby growing inside me for nine months. For one thing, there's morning sickness. If I'm going to feel nauseous and achy when I wake up, I want to achieve that state the old fashioned way: getting good and drunk the night before.

—Ellen DeGeneres

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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

—Thomas A. Edison

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Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

—Tertullian

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If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

—Joseph Wood Krutch

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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

—Ansel Adams

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I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.

—Marc Chagall

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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

—Josh Billings

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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Love has a tide!

—Helen Hunt Jackson

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Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

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We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.

—Jenny Han in It’s Not Summer Without You

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You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.

—Vicomte de Chateaubriand

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