"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."

Dayan, Moshe on peace
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"The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday --but never jam today."

Carroll, Lewis on promises   

"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

Cohen, Leonard on hope
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"Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on."

Zeno, Citium on fate   

"The wheel goes round and round, some are up and some are on the down, and still the wheel goes round."

Pollard, Josephine on fate   

"Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fate
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"The past should be a springboard, not a hammock."

Ball, Ivern on past
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"I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,"

Barnard, Charlotte on past
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"Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it."

Eliot, T. S. on past
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"Nostalgia is a seductive liar."

Ball, George W. on past
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"It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it."

Auchincloss, Kenneth on past
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"Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes."

Twain, Mark on death
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"It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death."

Twain, Mark on despair
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"All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women."

Greer, Germaine on men
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"The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood."

Greer, Germaine on fertility   

"It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago."

Clark, Eugenie on women
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"The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men and women. Women will not become less gentle and graceful, but men will become more so. Women will not neglect the care and education of their children, but men will find themselves ennobled and refined by sharing those duties with them; and will receive, in return, co-operation and sympathy in the discharge of various other duties, now deemed inappropriate to women. The more women become rational companions, partners in business and in thought, as well as in affection and amusement, the more highly will men appreciate home."

Child, Lydia M. on women
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"But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation."

Byron, Lord on women   

"Don't tell me peace has broken out."

Brecht, Bertolt on peace
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"We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves."

Camus, Albert on peace
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"A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on excellence
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"Our last garment is made without pockets."

Proverb, Italian on death
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"And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying."

Rossetti, Christina on death
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"Who is mightier than death? Those who can smile when death threatens."

Ruckett on death
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"I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?"

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on death
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"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on death
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"Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening."

Scott, Sir Walter on death
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"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing --a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."

Shaw, George Bernard on death
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"I want to be all used up when I die."

Shaw, George Bernard on death
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"God's finger touched him and he slept."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on death
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"Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums."

Laing, Dilys on women   

"Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed."

Korda, Michael on women   

"Men and women, women and men; it will never work."

Jong, Erica on women   

"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."

Hepburn, Katharine on women
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"I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn."

Greer, Germaine on women
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"When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family."

Maciver, Robert M. on women
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"Whether women are better than men I cannot say, but I can say they are certainly no worse."

Meir, Golda on women
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"A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition."

Mencken, H. L. on women
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"Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different."

Millet, Kate on women   

"Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty."

Oakley, Ann on family