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whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present?

—Michel de Montaigne

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A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

—John F. Kennedy

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A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

—Voltaire

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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

—Isaac Asimov

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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.

—Leonard Louis Levinson

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I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.

—Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar

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A woman is like a tea bag — you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

—Errol Flynn

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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

—William Wrigley Jr.

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A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

—Jerry Seinfeld

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I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

—Eddie Izzard

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True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

—William Ralph Inge

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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

—Charles Dickens

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