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- Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been carried on for…
- It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is…
- Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only…
- There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages…
- Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for…
- We all know of course, that we should never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever…
- But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at…
- The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.
- There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just crying about something terrible that has happened, but…
- I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong. You can look at a painting for the first time,…
- Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are…
- And when love is over when the diner of love seems closed from the outside you want all those hours back along with anything you…
- All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found
- An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead…
- The expression "following suit" is a curious one, because it has nothing to do with walking behind a matching set of clothing. If you follow…
- There are two types of panicking: standing still and not saying a word, and leaping all over the place babbling anything that comes into your…
- Everyone on earth would never starve and forever find love and happiness, since we won, but if we’d lost, they would have gouged out our…
- The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with…
- I’m not a romantic, I’m a half-wit. Only stupid people would think I’m smart. I’m not something anyone should know. I’m a lunatic wandering around…
- Take it back, Ed. Take it all back.
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- I realize my mistake when I lost you in the crowd. I felt the pain n loneliness when I lost you. U… — Anurag Prakash Ray