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Lord, it is time. The summer was very big. Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds go loose. Command the last fruits that they shall be full; give them another two more southerly days, press them on to fulfillment and drive the last sweetness into the heavenly wine. -- Rainer Maria Rilke

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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. -- Isaac Newton

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They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions. -- Isaac Asimov

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It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. -- Elizabeth Taylor

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The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew every time he sees me, while all the rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. -- George Bernard Shaw

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Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of. -- Socrates

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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -- Alvin Toffler

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Summer is almost over and I couldn't be happier. -- Parenting Magazine

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Love like you've never been hurt. -- Satchel Paige

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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. -- George Eliot

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. -- Leo Buscaglia

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What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions. -- Arnold H. Glasow

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Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat. -- Jim Davis

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A politician thinks of the next election, a statesman, of the next generation. -- J. F. Clarke

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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people. -- Orson Welles

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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. -- Bertrand Russell

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Our world is polarized, yet few of us live in the extremes. In “never” land, that is. And, even if we do live there, it is often a temporary home until circumstances change “never” to a more sheltered “sometimes” or “maybe.” -- Ruth Ann Janson

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I’ve changed my mind about what it means to change your mind. It doesn’t mean you lack conviction, just that you have a new perspective. -- Ruth Ann Janson

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Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing. -- Scott Westerfeld

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates

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Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands -- and then eat just one of the pieces. -- Judith Viorst

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Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. -- Norman Vincent Peale

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Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open. -- John Barrymore

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We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand fireworks. And if we are interested in Mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future. -- Ray Bradbury

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The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment. -- Tim Kreider

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. -- Robert Frost

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No choice is stupid if it comes from you. Never let anyone take away the choices in your heart. It's what makes you one of a kind. -- Stewart Lewis

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Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. —Ellen Goodman

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If you don't learn to laugh at your troubles, you'll have nothing to laugh at when you grow old. -- Edgar Watson Howe