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I gave in and admitted

that God was God.

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-C. S. Lewis

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It is easier to resist at the

beginning than at the end.

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-Leonardo da Vinci

All men’s miseries derive

from not being able to sit

in a quiet room alone.

-Blaise Pascal

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Politics consists in choosing between

the disastrous and the unpalatable.

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-John Kenneth Galbraith

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Adventure is just bad

planning.

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-Roald Amundsen

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Sleep, riches, and health

to be truly enjoyed must

be interrupted.

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-Johann Richter

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There's a fine line between fishing and

just standing on the shore like an idiot.

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-Steven Wright

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There is no pit so deep but

Christ is deeper still.

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-Corrie ten Boom

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Most men pursue pleasure

with such breathless haste

that they hurry past it.

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-Soren Kierkegaard

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The least I can do is speak out

for those who cannot speak for

themselves.

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-Jane Goodall

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I have heard the mermaids singing,

each to each.

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-T. S. Eliot

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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon;

to me those have always been the most

beautiful words in the English language.

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-Henry James

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Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says

otherwise is selling something.

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-The Princess Bride

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If you live to be a

hundred, you’ve got it

made. Very few people

die past that age.

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-George Burns

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O house of Jacob, come,

let us walk in the light of

the Lord.

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-Isaiah 2:5

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There is no excellent beauty that hath

not some strangeness in the proportion.
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-Francis Bacon

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All of us tend to put off living. We are all

dreaming of some magical rose garden over

the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses

that are blooming outside our windows today.

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-Dale Carnegie

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The early bird gets the worm,

but the second mouse gets the

cheese.
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-Jon Hammond

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The difference between the right

word and the almost right word

is the difference between lightning

and a lightning bug.

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-Mark Twain

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There are some things you

learn best in calm, and some

in storm.

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–Willa Cather