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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

- Joseph Addison

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“A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.”

- Andre Maurois

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Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

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A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

- Woodrow Wilson :rotfl:

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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still...

- Joseph Conrad

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We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

James Carroll

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I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.

- William Congreve

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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

- Wilson Mizner

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

- Joseph Addison

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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. :lol:

- H. L. Mencken