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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.

—Louis L'Amour in Lonely on the Mountain

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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

—Jack London

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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald

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A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

—Jackie Kennedy

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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

—Mark Twain

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Zen attacks that one last thing you hold dear: your precious self-conception. It unravels any notion of a freestanding, unconditional "I" and shows it to be a lie, a fabrication, a construction. True realization, the old masters tell us, takes bone-crushing effort. We pulverize the very skeleton of ego—upon which the meat and skin and organs of our illusions hang—and we do it through intense, hurtle-yourself-off-the-cliffs-and-into-the-chasm practice.

—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk

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You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.

—Vicomte de Chateaubriand

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If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.

—Bill Cosby

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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

—Rabindranath Tagore

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Can you imagine being forced to stay young forever, watching everyone you know die? How pointless would life seem if you saw that?

—Avery Williams in The Impossibility of Tomorrow

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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

—Senator Everett Dirksen

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Time passes too quickly when you're getting ready to do something you don't want to do.

—Courtney Summers in Some Girls Are

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Having this, and losing it, made it even sweeter the second time around.

—R.K. Lilley in Lovely Trigger

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We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so

—Marcel Proust

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