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Friends applaud, the comedy is over. - Ludwig van Beethoven

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has. - Hippocrates

The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation. - Sukarno

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance” – Socrates

"I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you."
Anthony Bourdain

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life.”– Thomas Merton

A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.

Wolfgang Puck

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath. - Lyndon B. Johnson

Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.

Nicolas Cage

"Not just beautiful, though—the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me."-Haruki Murakami

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. - Pablo Picasso

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing. - Philip Roth

“Be yourself. No one can say you're doing it wrong.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Some writers, write the story that they can not live, while others writers, live the story that they can not write.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - Robert A. Heinlein

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

Viggo Mortensen

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. - Alexis de Tocqueville

“Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund.” – Anthony Bourdain

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. - Ram Dass

"Just because something's been good in the past doesn't mean it will continue to be good."

Chef David Chang

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. - T. S. Eliot

“Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.”

Alton Brown

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. - Walt Whitman

"Nothing in this world pisses me off more than seeing people lie and say we outsource our music and lyrics."

Brian Burkheiser of I Prevail

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. - Simone de Beauvoir

"In a world of increasing grey areas, we are becoming more and more entrenched in black and white positions."

Paul Bettany

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. - Alan Watts

"We've all, at some point in our lives, been in a position where we have felt powerless."

Maggie Q

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. - Heraclitus

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

Charles M. Schulz

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of. - Viktor E. Frankl

It is not length of life, but depth of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. - Abraham Lincoln

“You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

Finance, like time, devours its own children. - Honoré de Balzac

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent” – Ludwig Wittgenstein.

“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”
― Orson Welles

Even a paranoid can have enemies. - Henry Kissinger

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
– Chuck Palahniuk

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. - Leonardo da Vinci

“In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back.”
― Charles M. Schulz

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness. - Tecumseh

"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."

Bill Gates

The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out. - Benito Mussolini

“The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures” – Democritus

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. - Robert E. Lee

“You know, sloth is a sin," he says softly.
"I prefer to think of it as an adorable animal.”
― Ella James, Sloth

A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob. - Herodotus

"Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that." -Joss Whedon

I knew I liked him for more than just creating Buffy and Angel back in the day LOL

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. - Nelson Mandela

“There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.”
– Nicholas Sparks

It's very scary having something wrong with your head. - Marianne Williamson

“Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.”
― C. JoyBell C.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. - Alexis de Tocqueville

“Where would you be if you left all your cares behind?”
― Marty Rubin

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there. - A. A. Milne

“Dog is God spelled backward.” – Duane Chapman

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child. - Plato

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
― Ernest Hemingway

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. - Alexis de Tocqueville

I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself. - Herrmann Hesse

“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”
– Carrie Jones