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You can't drown your sorrows, they always float to the surface.
Suffering
Source Unknown

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.
Heart
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You're entitled to your own opinions. Your are not entitled to your own facts.
Opinions
Source Unknown

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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
Innocence
John Updike

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A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
Diplomacy
Peter Ustinov

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Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
Virtue
Sir John Vanbrugh

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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Books - Reading
Raoul Vaneigem

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.
God
Virgil

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All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Books - Reading
Voltaire

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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
Appreciation
Voltaire

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Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.
Exception
Alice Walker

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There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.
Business
Sam Walton

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No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.
Faith
C. M. Ward

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There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Strength
Booker T. Washington

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You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Brotherhood
Booker T. Washington

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Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
Government
George Washington

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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Identity
Alan W. Watts

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That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
School
Evelyn Waugh

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Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
Reality
Simone Weil

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When you are down and out something always turns up -- and it is usually the noses of your friends.
Difficulties
Orson Welles

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
Time and Time Management
H.G. Wells

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If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill.
Laziness
Joan Welsh

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Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office.
Virtue
Mae West

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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
Mothers
Rebecca West

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.
Knowledge
Edwin P. Whipple

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun