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Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

—Ben Hecht

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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

—Paul Valéry

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It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

—Epicurus

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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

—Walter Hagen

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

—Gustave Flaubert

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Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

—Henri Rousseau

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You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

—Hunter S. Thompson

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We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

—Milton Berle

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An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

—Booth Tarkington

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O month when they who love must love and wed.

—Helen Hunt Jackson

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Since my parents' split, I hadn't had much faith in relationships and even less of an inclination to start any lasting ones of my own.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

—Rita Mae Brown in Hiss of Death

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You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

—Bryant McGill in Simple Reminders

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When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the way you think he'd like you to dress. You pick up his favorite figures of expression. You tell yourself that if you re-create yourself in his image, then he'll crave you in the same way you crave him.

—Jodi Picoult in Vanishing Acts

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The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.

—Scott Adams

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