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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
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Yiddish Proverb
If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
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David Friedman
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
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Rebecca West
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.
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Robert Joseph Bob Dole
At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say. (on his wife Elizabeth, president of the American Red Cross)
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Henry Ford
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
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Ronnie Shakes
I like life. It's something to do.
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Wilma Rudolph, "Wilma: The Story of Wilma Rudolph"
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Ingrid Bergman
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.
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T. S. Eliot
We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.
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Richard Wagner
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
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