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You're a grand old flag;
You're a high-flying flag.
And forever in peace may you wave.
George M. Cohan
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Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
Alexander Pushkin
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I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.
Isaac Asimov
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An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Those whom we called brutes had their revenge when Darwin showed us that they were our cousins.
George Bernard Shaw
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Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing.
Rumi
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To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.
Agatha Christie
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Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.
Ray Bradbury
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Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Jacopo Sannazaro
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I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.
François Mauriac
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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
André Gide
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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
Jane Austen
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863.
William Faulkner
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Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are.
J. K. Rowling
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One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.
G. K. Chesterton
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True human life does not take place in time but always "is" at the "timeless" point where the past becomes the future - a point which we incorrectly label the present. This is a timeless point, and people are free only at this point.
Leo Tolstoy
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In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.
Jerry Kramer
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My desk, most loyal friend
thank you. You've been with me on
every road I've taken.
My scar and my protection.
Marina Tsvetaeva
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Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.
Sherwood Eddy
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Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.
Arthur Adamov
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Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.
Aldous Huxley
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Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way
Isaac Rosenberg
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What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.
Antonio Porchia
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
Stendhal
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Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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