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"People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions."

Stendhal

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"The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears"

Stendhal

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"The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale - and that alone can guide."

Aristotle

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If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

- Steve Allen

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"Today is you own. Tomorrow perchance may never come."

Swami Sivananda

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Our best thoughts come from others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not."

Pablo Picasso

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I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

Robert McCloskey

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(Thank you, Zarah! :))

"And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors."

Lewis Carroll

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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

M.C. Escher