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“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

“There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.”
― James Hilton, Random Harvest

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

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

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
― Albert Einstein

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone.
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We leave you a tradition with a future.
The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.
People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.
Never throw out anybody.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.”
― Sam Levenson, In One Era & Out the Other

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
― Douglas Adams

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows