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I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliché about quote the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.

—David Foster Wallace

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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

—Socrates

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The easiest way to move on is to erase everything, and I do mean everything.

—Donna Lynn Hope

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Don't settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don't know what you want, be patient. The answers will come to you in time, and you may find that your heart's desire has been right under your nose all the while.

—Julia Quinn in With Love

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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

—Harry S. Truman

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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

—Quentin Crisp

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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

—Laurence J. Peter

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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

—e. e. cummings

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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

—Salvador Dali

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My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

—Mitch Hedberg

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

—G. K. Chesterton

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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

—e. e. cummings

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There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

—Nicolas Chamfort

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I don't know what it is about death that makes it so hard. I suppose it's the one-sided communication; the fact that we never get to ask our loved one if she suffered, if she is happy wherever she is now…if she is somewhere. It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.

—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller

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