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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

—Nadia Boulanger

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Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

—Edward Abbey

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If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

—Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

—Lillian Hellman

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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

—Gore Vidal

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Trying to forget really doesn’t work. In fact, it’s pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.

—Rebecca Stead in When You Reach Me

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When all else is lost, the future still remains.

—Christian Nestell Bovee

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The best proof of love is trust.

—Joyce Brothers

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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

—Anatole France

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You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

—Albert Einstein

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Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

—John Ruskin

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The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

—George Orwell

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The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies. In a war such as this, then, what is victory and how will we recognize it?

—Al Gore

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The philosopher Diogenes was sitting on a curbstone, eating bread and lentils for his supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king, you would not have to live on lentils." Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils, and you will not have to cultivate the king."

—Louis I. Newman

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