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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

—E. F. Schumacher

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Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

—Josh Billings

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Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

—John Webster

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Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

—Paul Klee

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I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!

—Steven Wright

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Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

—Theodor W. Adorno

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I want to feel that again. I want to remember what it feels like to love someone like that.

—Colleen Hoover in Never Never

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Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says, "Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed" — because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk.

—E. Lockhart in Real Live Boyfriends

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It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but an ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

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None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

—Lurlene McDaniel in Breathless

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Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.

—Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

—Oscar Wilde

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Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

—John Lennon

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Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

—Norm Papernick

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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

—Richard Wright

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