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“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”

Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther

“Never be afraid to sit a while and think.”

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Book:A Raisin in the Sun

Source: A Raisin in the Sun

“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”

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Book:Frida Kahlo

Source: Frida Kahlo

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

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Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”

“How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.”

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Author:Lucille Ball

“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

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Author:Alexander Graham Bell

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”

“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.”

Source: No Greater Love

“n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

“We are all fools in love.”

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Author:Jane Austen

“To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.”

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”

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Author:James F. Cooper

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.”