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• In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

  Chris Patten

  Freedom, Democracy, Jerk

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• I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Believe, Passion

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2001). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.231, MIT Press

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• The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Men, People

  C. S. Lewis (1952). “Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey Bone, Corkey Romano, and A Night at the Roxbury, leading me to believe not only do I have awful taste in films, but I also have a Chris Kattan fixation. What I don't have is $4000 earing intrest in a money market account.

  Jen Lancaster

  Believe, Night, Dvds

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• As I say the words, I realize how true they are. And maybe that's the trick to getting through it, through life: realizing that everybody, including ourselves, is lugging around some kind of screwed-up baggage. Maybe we are put here to help each other carry the loads.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Life, Baggage, Helping

  Lisa Ann Sandell (2011). “A Map of the Known World”, p.232, Scholastic Inc.

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• When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fear, Children, Growing Up

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• "Baby, you know?" my mother once said to me. "I think you're the greatest woman I've ever met - and I'm not including my mother or Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in that." She said, "You are very intelligent and you're very kind, and those two qualities do not often go together." Then she went across the street and got in her car, and I went the other way down to the streetcar. I thought, "Suppose she's right. She's intelligent - and she's too mean to lie." You see, a parent has the chance - and maybe the responsibility - to liberate her child. And my mom had liberated me when I was 17.

  Maya Angelou

  Mom, Mother, Baby

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

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• Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves. The universe is not separate from this cosmic sea of energy.

  David Bohm

  Sea, Space, Energy

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• no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dog, Time, Loss

  Abraham Lincoln (1888). “The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Including the Full Text of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Together with the Essay on Lincoln”

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• The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.

  Henry Rollins

  Materials

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.287, Villard

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• Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.

  Michael Crichton

  Years, Growth, United States

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• I've a pocket full of dreams to sell," said Teddy, whimsically,... "What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? A dream of success--a dream of adventure--a dream of the sea--a dream of the woodland--any kind of a dream you want at reasonable prices, including one or two unique little nightmares. What will you give me for a dream?

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dream, Adventure, Unique

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Emily Climbs”, p.253, Booklassic

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• They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.

  Tim O'Brien

  Bears, Silent, Terrible

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.

  Azar Nafisi

  Dancing, Mind, Brutality

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.76, Random House

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• Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Numbers, Disease, Causes

  Abbie Hoffman (1971). “The "steal Yourself Rich" Book”

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• Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.

  Helen Fisher

  Couple, Intellectual, Together

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• It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.

  Colm Toibin

  Country, Reading, Thinking

  "History students will no longer tolerate or believe grand narratives" by Colm Toibin, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2013.

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• If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and religions. We don't find demons in those with whom we disagree. We don't cozy up to people who mouth our jargon. If we are open, we rarely resort to either-or: either creation or evolution, liberty or law, sacred or secular, Beethoven or Madonna. We focus on both-and, fully aware that God's truth cannot be imprisoned in a small definition.

  Brennan Manning

  Children, Law, Ideas

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.42, Multnomah

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• You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man’s nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Squares, Roots

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• That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

  Dorothy Parker

  Death, Tombstone, Cutting

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.125, Penguin

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• Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

  Douglas Adams

  Believe, Paradox, Wells

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• Everything in moderation, including moderation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Food

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• Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destory; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign for vilification.

  Farley Mowat

  Animal, Men, Quality

  Farley Mowat (2015). “Never Cry Wolf”, p.103, Open Road Media

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• We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Disappointment, Philosophy, Stress

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• Don't you mind," said Puddleglum. "There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant king caused the letters to be cut, and he knew already all things that would come of them; including this.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kings, Cutting, Mind

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.112, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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