"It is better to have loved and lost, than to have paid for it and not liked it at all."

Davies, Graham on love
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"Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on hope
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"When you get married you forget about kissing other women."

Boone, Pat on marriage
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"Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count."

Smith, Wolfman Jack on love
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"Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense."

Liebig on truth
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"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."

Adams, Henry Brooks on words
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
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"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime."

Carnegie, Dale on words
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"Words are alive; cut them and they bleed."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on words
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"Strong words are required for weak principles."

Horton, Doug on words   

"Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing."

Gladden, W. on words
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"Words from the thread on which we string our experiences."

Huxley, Aldous on words   

"Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear."

Joubert, Joseph on words
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Einstein, Albert on nature
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"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."

Gaultier, Jules de on imagination
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"Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be -- like the reality of yesterday -- an illusion tomorrow."

Pirandello, Luigi on reality
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"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

Lao-Tzu on change
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"Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown."

Shinn, George on growth
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"Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts."

King, Stephen on pain
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"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."

Sarraute, Nathalie on suspicion   

"We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected."

Thoreau, Henry David on suspicion   

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"We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal."

Williams, Tennessee on suspicion
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"One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve."

Allen, George on perseverance
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"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

Andrews, Julie on perseverance
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"When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up."

Brown, Les on perseverance
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"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all."

Carnegie, Dale on perseverance
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"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

Coolidge, Calvin on perseverance
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"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."

Elliott, Walter on perseverance
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"Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel."

Hill, Napoleon on perseverance
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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you."

James, William on perseverance
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"Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold."

Meldrum, Dr. A. B. on perseverance
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"It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired."

Strauss, Robert on perseverance
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"Suspicion is the cancer of friendship."

Petrarch, Francesco on suspicion   

"The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person."

Hoffer, Eric on suspicion   

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

Eliot, George on suspicion
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"America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco."

Bartholdi, Frederic Auguste on america
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"America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got."

Bunch, Charlotte on america
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"America is the best half-educated country in the world."

Butler, Nicholas on america
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"I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President."

Chaplin, Charlie on america
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