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• Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

  Cyril Connolly

  Love, Marriage, Parent

  David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1984). “Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir”

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• I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!

  Walter Raleigh

  Love, Fun, Silly

  "Wishes of an Elderly Man" l. 1 (1923)

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• To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.

  John Selden

  Love, Running, Men

  John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.48

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• If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.

  George Sand

  Love, Men, Law

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• The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed, breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Brother, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.22, Xist Publishing

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• If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual; to love each poor person. Not to deal with institutions. I am in no position to judge.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Judging, People

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together, I would have run all the way and I would have gone up to the largest and leatheriest of the denizens and said: If you truly love me, kill the bartender.

  Quentin Crisp

  Love, Running, Brave

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• They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in view, something which leaves off as soon as that end is reached. It is not a public chore, to be got over with. It is a way of life. It is the life of a domesticated political and social creature who is born with a love for public life, with a desire for honor, with a feeling for his fellows; and it lasts as long as need be.

  Plutarch

  Love, Military, Ocean

  Attributed in "The Great Quotations" edited by George Seldes, (p. 570), 1966.

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• If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Pregnancy, Fighting, Men

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• Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough roads, continually signaling to clear the way and keeping a watchful on the speedometer to see that you do not exceed the speed limit and provoke the wrath of the bicycle policeman or the covetous constable.

  Harriet Quimby

  Wrath, Riding, Limits

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• There is a thrill of vulnerability at all airshows. There is no way of making everything completely safe. When the machines are being thrashed to capacity and the pilots are flying at their limits to dazzle, things are bound to go wrong sometimes. There have been some historic disasters, but the danger is a part of the attraction.

  Alex James

  Flying, Machines, Thrill

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• Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.

  Phil McGraw

  Inspirational, Two, Important

  Phil McGraw (2013). “The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not against Botox and I would never judge anyone else for getting any kind of surgical or nonsurgical procedure, but I think when you`re young there are other ways you can look after your skin. [...] Botox just wasn't necessary for me at this age.

  Kim Kardashian

  Thinking, Judging, Age

  "Showbiz Tonight" with A.J. Hammer and Brooke Anderson, www.cnn.com. September 23, 2010.

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• The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Writing, Information, Persons

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• Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  True Life, Language, Life Is

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• If I brought groceries the way I buy health insurance, I'd eat a lot better - and so would my dog.

  Phil Gramm

  Dog, Groceries, Ifs

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• America's leaders have to find a way to work together, rise to the challenge, and come up with solutions as bold and visionary as the people of this nation.

  Joe Biden

  America, People, Leader

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• Foreign policy of a pluralistic democracy like the United States should be based on bipartisanship because bipartisanship is the means and the framework for formulating policies based on moderation and on the recognition of the complexity of the human condition. That has been the tradition since the days of Truman and Vandenberg all the way until recent times.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Mean, Democracy, United States

  Address to the New American Strategies Conference, October 28, 2003.

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• Foreign aid is important. If it's done right, it spreads America's influence around the world in a positive way.

  Marco Rubio

  America, Important, Done

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• I really, really enjoy fitting words together - but I only enjoy it when it's easy, when it sort of rolls along by itself. I never erase anything [and] I hardly ever write anything down... The song will be finished before I write it down... I won't write a song unless it serves me in some way, unless I feel I have to write the song to make myself feel better. If you're not overflowing with something, there's nothing to give.

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Writing, Feel Better

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• A person's way of doing things is a direct result of the way he thinks about things.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Inspirational, Success, Thinking

  Wallace D. Wattles, General Press (2016). “The Science of Getting Rich”, p.13, GENERAL PRESS

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• It's not like I'm looking to describe something that's only true of my own circumstances. It's beyond. It's way inside, you know. It's reaching inside to something that you have in common with many.

  Jackson Browne

  Common, Reaching, Circumstances

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• I really, really like writing songs. Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it...Something that's written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

  Debbie Harry

  Song, Writing, Mean

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• The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?...We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal...I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things I've been through are serious...The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.

  Robert Plant

  Reflection, Rocks, Essence

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• It's very helpful to start with something that's true. If you start with something that's false, you're always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.

  Paul Simon

  Nice, Simple, Track

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