"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.
Richard Bach
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"I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains." – Anne Frank.
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann Hesse.
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I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk.
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
~ Chief Joseph: Nez Perce 1840-1904, Nez Percéé Indian chief
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"So many gods, so many creeds,So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind,Is all this sad world needs." -Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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“It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.”
Jeanette Winterson
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"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster
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