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You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?
Confucius

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'The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their lives, which infallibly destroy them.'

Joseph Addison

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Let them eat cake

Marie-Antoinette

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"Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice."

Ethel Merman

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'Love is like racing across the frozen tundra on a snowmobile which flips over, trapping you underneath. At night, the ice-weasels come'.

Matt Groening

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"You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave."

Henry Ward Beecher

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.


Charles Dickens

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"We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive."

C.S. Lewis

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Hi Kiljo :)

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.


Shelley Winters

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Hello, how are you?

"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them."

Stanley Lindquist

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"Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot."

Alexander Pope

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Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.


Buddy Guy

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"A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances."

Robert Baden-Powell

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'Character, not circumstances, make the man'.

Booker T Washington

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"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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'Time heals what reason cannot'.

Seneca

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"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

Mark Twain

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'Lean too much on the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns'.

Tehyi Hsieh

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"There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers."

Grantland Rice

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'I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water around the house.'

George Bernard Shaw

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"I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my father's house to believe in democracy

Sir Winston Churchill

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"If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk."

Gary Ackerman

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'Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.'

Dr. Robert Anthony

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"Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."

Epicurus

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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.




* Aristotle

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'Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.'

William Shakespeare

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“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

Marcel Proust

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"No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."

Epictetus

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'Minds ripen at very different ages.'

Stevie Wonder

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"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations."

William Feather

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A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.


Joseph Roux

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"A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward."

Frank Lloyd Wright

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'There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.'

Pablo Picasso

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"We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people."

Pope Benedict XVI

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'Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.'

Albert Einstein

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Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. :heart:


Franklin P. Jones

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"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe."

Robert Service

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'Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.'

Doug Larson

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"We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury."

Ben Bradlee

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“Having your fate rest in the hands of a jury is the same as entrusting yourself to surgery with a mentally retarded doctor.”


-Bill Messing

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"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."

Erma Bombeck