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Random Quotes and Sayings - 191
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Terence
I have everything, yet have nothing and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
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Helen Keller
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
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Bertolt Brecht
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place
Much like the city of London. I
Who live in Los Angeles and not in London
Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be
Still more like Los Angeles.
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W. Somerset Maugham
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Harlan Ellison, "Paladin of the Lost Hour"
Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.
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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
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Nick Faldo
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
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Abraham Lincoln
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
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Rambler
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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William J. Bennett
We don't need more assault rifles on our streets right now.
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Dale Dauten, from a 1997 column
Nothing important can be taught, only learned.
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Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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