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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Mark Twain

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Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Albert Einstein

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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Maya Angelou

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Booth Tarkington

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Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

Homer

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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

Euripides

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

H. G. Wells

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No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Albert Einstein

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There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Ernest Hemingway

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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is — it is her shadow.

Ambrose Bierce

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Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

Horace

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Joseph Campbell

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Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

Tertullian

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Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

Mark Twain

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What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Confucius

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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

Matsuo Basho

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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

Omar Khayyam

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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

Marcel Proust

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