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Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

—David T. Wolf

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The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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If we’d never met, I think I would have known my life wasn’t complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn’t know who I was looking for.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Longest Ride

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We fall forward to succeed.

—Mary Kay Ash

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.

—Red Skelton

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A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

—Robert Benchley

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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

—Richard Feynman

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It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

—Gabrielle Zevin in Elsewhere

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Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

—David Wilkerson

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If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.

—Marcelene Cox

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We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.

—Robert Wilensky

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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

—Soren Kierkegaard

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The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

—H. L. Mencken

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The grass is always greener once you don't have to mow a lawn anymore.

—Randy K. Milholland

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