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  • Albert Camus Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Bianca Kajlich Too many people get married and lose themselves. You have to fiercely hold on to who you are, and you need to celebrate that in the other person because that's what made you fall in love in the first place.
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  • David Gemmell Too many people go through life without pausing to enjoy what they have.
    The King Beyond the Gate (1985)
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Brooke Shields Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Leo Buscaglia Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Barbara Delinsky Too often, I've seen instances where we have an idea of what we want to be, where we want to go, and with whom - before life steps in the way, throws something at us that is beyond our control, and changes everything.
    Barbara Delinsky
    American writer (1945 - )
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  • Henry Miller Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Arundhati Roy Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Hannah Arendt Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Johann Gottfried Von Herder Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
    Johann Gottfried Von Herder
    German poet and theologian (1744 - 1803)
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  • E. M. Forster Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Bo Bennett Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Gerald F. Lieberman Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.
    Gerald F. Lieberman
    American writer
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  • Bob Ross Traditionally, art has been for the select few. We have been brainwashed to believe that Michelangelo had to pat you on the head at birth.
    Bob Ross
    American painter, art instructor and television personality (1942 - 1995)
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  • Abba Eban Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Ben Foster Transcendental Meditation, for me, has been a way of turning down the outside racket and turning up the bandwidth of instinct, intuition, concentration, attention. On the light ends, it's a power nap. On the strong ends, it's a giant battery, and that battery doesn't run out.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Blake Mycoskie Traveling as much as I do, I get lonely sometimes. I have friends now in cities all over the world, so I get to be social, but it's hard to have the deep meaningful relationships, especially an intimate one. With my guy friends, I can show up once a month and go to dinner with them and they're happy.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Lisa St. Aubin de Teran Travelling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, ''I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.''
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  • Publilius Syrus Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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