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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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Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

—James Thurber

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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

—Rebecca West

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Kids are like buckets of disease that live in your house.

—Louis C.K.

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People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

—Russell Baker

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If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

—Donald H. Rumsfeld

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In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

—Paul Harvey

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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

—Robertson Davies

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People rarely understand that nothing is ever exactly what you think it will be.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Longest Ride

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

—John Dewey

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Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

—Erich Fromm

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There are only two seasons — winter and Baseball.

—Bill Veeck

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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

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