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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

—Thomas Jefferson

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When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

—Henny Youngman

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A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.

—Segal's Law

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There is a difference between saying goodbye and letting go. Goodbye is not permanent. You can meet years later and share what happened in your life. You can smile and laugh about all the nonsense that you both went through. However, letting go is being okay with never seeing this person ever again…being okay with never knowing how their life turned out…being okay with fifty or more years of silence…being okay with running into that person at a grocery store and having them not acknowledge your presence. This is the part of life that doesn't sit well with me and never will. It tears my heart in pieces, robs me of gratitude, drains me of anything positive and eats at the faith that holds on.

—Shannon L. Alder

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They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.

—Bil Keane

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Acknowledging fear is not a cause for depression or discouragement. Because we possess such fear, we also are potentially entitled to experience fearlessness. True fearlessness is not the reduction of fear; but going beyond fear.

—Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

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I know her face by heart. Sometimes I think nothing will break her spell.

—Daphne Merkin

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

—Gore Vidal

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The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by the poor, it's because they do not know them.

—Mother Teresa

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Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.

—William Saroyan

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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

—Willa Cather

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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

—Paul Valéry

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A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

—Plato

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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

—Edgard Varese

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He had known the rarest of things—love, real love—he'd held it in his hand and he'd thrown it away. What was left for him? A lifetime of second-bests.

—Jennifer Donnelly in The Tea Rose

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