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Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don’t intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or intentions you thought were harmless, but before you knew it things got out of your control.

—Dana Reinhardt in Harmless

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It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

—Marlene Dietrich

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An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

—Evelle J. Younger

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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

—Charles M. Schulz

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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

—Bertolt Brecht

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You forget all of it anyway. You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They’re the last to go. And then once you’ve forgotten enough, you love someone else.

—Gabrielle Zevin in Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

—Malcolm Forbes

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You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

—Will Rogers

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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

—H. L. Mencken

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The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.

—Alex Levin

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History is more or less bunk.

—Henry Ford

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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

—Douglas Adams

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Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it’s becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.

—Jacqueline Woodson in Peace, Locomotion

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I can live for two months on a good compliment.

—Mark Twain

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Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

—Ben Hecht

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