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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. - Abraham Lincoln

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. - Franz Kafka

“I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”
― Alyson Noel

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend. - Jim Morrison

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

John Keats

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them. - Luc de Clapiers

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. - H. L. Mencken

Genius is finding the invisible link between things.
Vladimir Nabokov

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Barack Obama

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. - George Sand

“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”— President Harry S. Truman

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world. - Hermann Hesse

"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it." - Mark Twain

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters. - Alexander the Great

Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.” – John F. Kennedy

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. - Charles Spurgeon

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

The happiness of society is the end of government. - John Adams

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”

Winnie the Pooh

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger. - Heraclitus

“It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” —Theodore Roosevelt

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. - Oscar Wilde

“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
― John Lennon

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. - Arthur C. Clarke

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so. - Walter Scott

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! - Daniel Dennett

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E.B. White

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. - Joseph Stalin

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
― Marcus Aurelius