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  • Bill Hicks The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they sa
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bobby McFerrin Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Ann Oakley There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.
    Ann Oakley
    British sociologist, writer (1944 - )
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  • Vladimir Nabokov There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Henry van Dyke There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Pearl Bailey There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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  • Francoise D'Aubegne Maintenon There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
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  • James Russell Lowell There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Thomas Hobbes There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • George Santayana There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Lydia Davis There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.
    Lydia Davis
    American writer (1947 - )
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  • Bill Parcells There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Ben Folds There's never gonna be a moment of truth for you
    While the world is watching
    All you need is the thing you forgotten
    And that's to learn to live with what you are.
    Lyrics Learn to Live with What You Are, Supersunnyspeedgr
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Ben Platt There's something to be said for any boy growing up among lots of other boys who like to play basketball and football, while all I wanted to do was put on musicals. Mentally, I was always in my own world.
    Ben Platt
    American actor, singer, and songwriter (1993 - )
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  • Adrienne Rich They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Tennessee Williams Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • William Hazlitt To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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