"The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love."

Barthelme, Don on adulthood   

"Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain."

Dryden, John on adulthood   

"To be adult is to be alone."

Rostand, Jean on adulthood   

"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."

Unknown on   

"Heredity is nothing, but stored environment."

Burbank, Luther on ancestry
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"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

Picasso, Pablo on art   

"Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl."

Adams, Mike on science   

"He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on enemies
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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

Bradley, Francis H. on admiration
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"When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away."

Proverb, English on rebellion
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"The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will."

Haggai, John on god
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"Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on life   

"Never let the fear of striking out, keep you from playing the game."

Unknown, Source on
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"Dost thou love life? Then waste not time; for time is the stuff that life is made of. "

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN on
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"Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?"

Ellis, Havelock on dream
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"Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends."

Adams, Dawn on books - reading
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"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on relationship
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"Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time."

Chambers, Oswald on faith
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"Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character."

Lowell, James Russell on solitude
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"In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better."

Ozick, Cynthia on obvious   

"Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent."

White, Elwyn Brooks on obscenity
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"It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics."

Johnson, James Weldon on music   

"An evil life is a kind of death."

Ovid on death
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"When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!"

Alt, Carol on admiration
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"We have art in order not to die of the truth."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on art
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"Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind."

Fuller, Thomas on anger   

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

Bacon, Francis on opportunity
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"Rather suffer than die is man's motto."

La Fontaine, Jean De on suffering   

"Evangelism is the spontaneous overflow of a glad and free heart in Jesus Christ."

Munger, Robert on evangelism
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"A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction."

Ballard, J. G. on pornography   

"Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible."

Hoffer, Eric on ambition
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"They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness."

Hazlitt, William on acting and actors   

"i dropped a tear in the ocean. the day you find it is the day i will stop missing you. "

Unknown on missing you
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"sometimes i wonder if there are words locked inside you too.. feelings. emotions. but i'll never know."

Unknown on missing you
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"I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion."

Dowson, Ernest on fidelity   

"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."

Frank, Al on denial
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"What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea -- possessing them -- that what has been said has still not been said enough."

Delacroix, Eugene on genius   

"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."

Delacroix, Eugene on art   

"On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox."

Baudelaire, Charles on writers and writing   

"The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."

Connolly, Cyril on marriage
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