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Isaac Asimov
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . .
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Jane Austen, Emma
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
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Mark Beltaire
Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.
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Sigmund Freud, Letter to Carl Jung, January 17, 1909
We are certainly getting ahead; if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar.
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J. K. Rowling
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless"
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
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Benjamin Franklin
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
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Barry Switzer
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
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Daisaku Ikeda
You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.
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Unknown
Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out.
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Jon Lithgow
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.
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Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket"
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
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