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The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

—Jodi Picoult in Lone Wolf

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There are some people out there who don't wait for what comes next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.

—Jonathan Tropper in One Last Thing Before I Go

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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

—Winston Churchill

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Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.

—Peter Borden

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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

—Vince Lombardi

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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

—Flannery O'Connor

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In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

—Ellen DeGeneres

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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

—Mel Brooks

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If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

—Marlon Brando

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Indecision may or may not be my problem.

—Jimmy Buffett

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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

—Elbert Hubbard

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Nothing will work unless you do.

—Maya Angelou

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Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

—Theodore Roosevelt

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