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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

—Thomas A. Edison

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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

—Bertrand Russell

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What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by.

—Peter Cameron in Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

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Forgiveness is the final form of love.

—Reinhold Niebuhr

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I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

—Jules Renard

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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

—Dr. Joyce Brothers

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What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

—P.J. O'Rourke

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That’s what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth.

—Laurell K. Hamilton in Guilty Pleasures

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Man loves company — even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

—Georg C. Lichtenberg

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A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

—Yogi Berra

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When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

—Albert Einstein

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Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

—Fred Allen

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You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

—Sydney Smith

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Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

—Peter Ustinov

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