"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Churchill, Winston on fanatics and fanaticism
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"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."

Blake, William on love
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"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on love
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"Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge."

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De on love
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"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."

Carmichael, Amy on love
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"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on love
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"Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less."

Gordon, Rabbi J. on love
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"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

Heinlein, Robert on love
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"Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it."

Judalet, Curtis on love
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"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. on love
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"A little neglect may breed great mischief."

Franklin, Benjamin on neglect   

"Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them."

Franklin, Benjamin on argument
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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Franklin, Benjamin on expectation
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"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."

Allen, Woody on love
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"In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes."

Ashley, Elizabeth on love
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"Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well."

Cholmondeley, Mary on love
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"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours."

Colton, Charles Caleb on love
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"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."

Crawford, Joan on love
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"Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice."

Crowley, Aleister on love
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"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."

Irving, Washington on love
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"The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible."

Algren, Nelson on love
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