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"Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation."

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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"Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music."

Allan Bloom

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"If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land."

Mencius

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"It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon."

Alan Bean

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"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands."

Havelock Ellis


How very true!! :nod: ... And what an interesting name the author has. :)

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Ah really true K'lyn!

"I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society."

Alan Bates

Hmm, very interesting point of view.. :neutral:

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Makes sense to me! :nod: :lol:


"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals."

Oscar Wilde

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"Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children."

John Sununu

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"Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace."

James Russell Lowell

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“Success, happiness, peace of mind and fulfillment - the most priceless of human treasures - are available to all among us, without exception, who make things happen - who make "good" things happen - in the world around them.”

Joe Klock

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The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. (Elie Wiesel)
The opposite of death is not life, it's ........ I don't care! (Antunes)

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Since I've got the choice, I'm going for indifference here :silly:

“Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.”

Since numberous people have said this, I won't put a special name to it.

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"Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette."

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Oh! :nodder:

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“Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said "CIGARETTES CONTAIN FAT."”

Dave Barry

:rotfl:

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I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money. :lol9:
(Marlon Brando)

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"Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with."

Charles Farrar Browne

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“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”

Denis Waitley

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Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop

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“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

Kahlil Gibran

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I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
Angela Carter

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“The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of 'Ten Best'.”

H. Allen Smith

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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln

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"To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education."

John Buchan

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“Your greatness is measured by your kindness; your education and intellect by your modesty; your ignorance is betrayed by your suspicions and prejudices, and your real caliber is measured by the consideration and tolerance you have for others.”

William J. H. Boetcker

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"Apparently God makes us all different. Some of us are happy to respond to His individual touch on our lives by remaining individuals, and others of us are intimidated or frightened into trying to become like each other so that we have company, so that we don't feel so lonely."

Larry Norman

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“Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.”

David Pratt

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"Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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“Misery is almost always the result of thinking.”
Joseph Joubert

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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
(George Bernard Shaw)

:lol: Busy man he was!:rotfl:

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:lol: Yeah! Hope he didn't pull a muscle! :lol9:


"Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang Happy Birthday."

Steven Wright

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Oh good, now I can post one of my all time favourites:

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
(Lewis Carroll)

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"They know enough who know how to learn."

Henry B. Adams

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“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.”

Leo F. Buscaglia

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"No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year."

Sean O'Casey

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“A year, ten years from now, I'll remember this; not why, only that we were here like this, together.”
Adrienne Rich

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"Let us come together before we're annihilated."

Stevie Wonder

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"The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies."

Francis Wright

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"Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn."

B. R. Hayden

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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
Jane Austen

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"Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours."

Robert Toombs

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It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. :nodder:
Buddha