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“Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story

“Addiction is nothing but voluntary madness.”
― Narcotics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous

“You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November. There comes a time.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography

“Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.”
― André Gide, Autumn Leaves

“I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“I still fly a lot in my dreams, she told us, but I try to stay close to the ground. At my age, a fall can be pretty serious.”
― Brian Andreas, Story People

“I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Alma Mater

“To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.”
― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

“It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“I happen to be one of those people whose memory shuts down under pressure. The answers would come to me in the middle of the night in my sleep! Besides, I am a millionaire.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

“The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.”
― Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief

“… Your father, for instance, don’t you think he would have done three times as much work if it had not been for your—what shall I say—’bringing up’?”
“He liked it—time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
“Oh, but it was in his case—wasted for him and for many lovers of art.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

“As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

“There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

“I always said the professional advocate was the most amoral person on the face of the earth. I'm certain of it now.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Are Women Human? Penetrating, Sensible and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

“Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

“I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.”
― Masaru Emoto, The Secret of Water

“Young cat! If you keep
Your eyes open enough,
Oh, the stuff you will learn!
The most wonderful stuff!”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

“It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left.
And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

“Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.”
― William W. Purkey

“There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.”
― Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

“She saw him drenched with gasoline. She could actually feel the box of matches in her hand.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

“Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

“I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for, and about Groucho Marx