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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

—Anaïs Nin

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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

—Jack Benny

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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

—Thomas Jefferson

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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

—Mark Twain

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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

—Cullen Hightower

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

—Paul Valéry

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

—Albert Einstein

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Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

—Herb Caen

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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

—George Ade

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

—Louisa May Alcott

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If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

—Erich Fromm

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Be the chief but never the lord.

—Laozi

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The possible ranks higher than the actual.

—Martin Heidegger

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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

—Henry David Thoreau

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