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The main thing is to know something and to say it.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

—Gustave Flaubert

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Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

—Robert Staughton Lynd

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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

—Jerome K. Jerome

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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

—Thomas Jefferson

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No good deed goes unpunished.

—Clare Booth Luce

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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."

—Jerry Seinfeld

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Love does strange things to you sometimes. It can twist you into saying and doing things that you know you’ll regret and still, you do them.

—C.K. Kelly Martin in I Know It’s Over

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We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

—William Lloyd Garrison

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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

—Ingrid Bergman

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A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

—Tennessee Williams

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Set a goal so big that if you achieved it, it would blow your mind.

—Rhonda Byrne in The Secret

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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

—Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

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I can’t imagine what my life was before. I can’t imagine ever being without you for very long again.

—Anna Godbersen in Splendor

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