"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love."

Wilde, Oscar on Love Ended
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"You can never get enough of what you don't want."

Dyer, Wayne on Abundance
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"Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle."

Bright, Grant M. on Knowledge
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"A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom."

Proverb, Welsh on Fools and Foolishness
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"A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it."

Clark, Frank A. on Parents and Parenting
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"Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved."

Thucydides on Ignorance
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"Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink"

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on Humankind
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"God is only a great imaginative experience."

Lawrence, D. H. on God
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"Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom."

Elizabeth, Queen on Wisdom
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"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all."

Rather, Dan on Trials
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"I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart."

Jerome, Jerome K. on Work
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"My secret is practice"

Beckham, David on Practice
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"The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other."

Ma-Tsu on Zen
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"I married beneath me. All women do."

Astor, Lady Nancy on Marriage
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"A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man."

Howe, Edgar Watson on Forgiveness
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"Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it."

Morley, Christopher on Life and Living
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"You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable."

Duras, Marguerite on Men
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"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."

Ruskin, John on Success
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"He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow."

Proverb, Spanish on Law and Lawyers
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"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."

Updike, John on Existence
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"But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out."

Gay, John on Money
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"The love of truth lies at the root of much humor."

Davies, Robertson on Truth
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"The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount."

Addison, Joseph on Pleasure
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"Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Wisdom
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"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Power
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"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Allen, Woody on Love
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"Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing Embraceable You in spats."

Allen, Woody on Animals
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"Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable."

Allen, Woody on Life and Living
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"I've never been an intellectual but I have this look."

Allen, Woody on Intelligence and Intellectuals
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."

Allen, Woody on Immortality
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"In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."

Allen, Woody on Hollywood
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"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank."

Allen, Woody on Skepticism
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"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead."

Allen, Woody on Food and Eating
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"What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?"

Allen, Woody on Dreams
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"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."

Allen, Woody on Disillusion
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"I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot."

Allen, Woody on Drugs
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"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."

Allen, Woody on Love
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"The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.."

Allen, Woody on Marriage
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"More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly."

Allen, Woody on History and Historians
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"If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe."

Allen, Woody on Risk
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