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  • John Milton How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Alfred de Musset How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
    Alfred de Musset
    French writer (1810 - 1857)
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  • Ben Gibbard How I wish you could see the potential
    The potential of you and me
    It's like a book elegantly bound, but
    In a language that you can't read just yet You got to spend some time, love
    You got to spend some time with me
    And I know that you'll find love
    I will possess your heart
    Narrow Stairs I Will Possess Your Heart
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Juvenal How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Alan Watts How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Woody Allen How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Alexandre Dumas père How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Karl Kraus How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carlo Collodi How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Bob Marley How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Jeremy Collier How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Samuel G. Goodrich How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!
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  • Bradley Denton How many members of the fleshbound masses do you think will listen to him? He's making sense, and they don't respond to that.
    Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991)
    Bradley Denton
    American science fiction author (1958 - )
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  • Anna Held How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bill Hicks How much do you smoke a day sir? Pack! What a little puss. Gosh, why don't you just put a dress on and show it all to us while you smoke your little faggoty pack. C'mon, swish around for us. Damnit that pisses me off. I go through two lighters a day, dude. I'm starting to feel it.
    Sane Man
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Edith Wharton How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Olympia Brown How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.
    Olympia Brown
    American minister and suffragist (1835 - 1926)
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