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How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we give up on ourselves when our lives are just starting? Things get hard and we immediately back away and assume that means we're going in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing. If anything, when the waters get thick, that's our sign to keep going.

—Rachel Van Dyken in Toxic

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You can never know about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part in your own destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?

—Libba Bray in Going Bovine

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If they want to be in your life, they'll find a way to be in your life. Otherwise they'll find excuses.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

—James Thurber

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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

—Henry David Thoreau

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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

—Winston Churchill

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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

—Honoré de Balzac

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What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

—Havelock Ellis

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College isn't the place to go for ideas.

—Helen Keller

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Invention is the mother of necessity.

—Thorstein Veblen

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After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.

—Unknown

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A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

—Sir Arnold Bax

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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

—James Thurber

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You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

—Sammy Davis, Jr.

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The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

—Robert Baden-Powell

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