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Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

—Shannon L. Alder

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I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.

—Victor Borge

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I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!

—Ellen DeGeneres

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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

—William Jennings Bryan

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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

—James Baldwin

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We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

—Bill Vaughan

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

—Richard Bach

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

—Herman Melville

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The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

—Henry Ward Beecher

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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

—Laozi

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Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

—James Montgomery

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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

—Emily Dickinson

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

—G. K. Chesterton

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