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Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
— Dr Seuss, http://www.fluentin3months.com/sound-like-a-carioca/
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The absence of fear is not courage. The absence of fear is some kind of brain damage.
— M Scott Peck, http://chrisguillebeau.com/3x5/fearless/
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Create until nothing is left to create and the universe bursts with an overworked sigh
— Tally Hall, Spring and a Storm
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Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms is to be strenuously avoided. How do you expect to get ahead? people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn’t want to get ahead, he simply wants to get away.
— J. Maarten Troost, Getting Stoned with Savages. 1-2.
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News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.
— Lord Northcliffe, http://twitter.com/gruber
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90 people get the swine flu and everyone wants to wear a mask. A million people have AIDS and no one wants to wear a condom.
— Allison Weiss, http://allisonweiss.tumblr.com/post/102405427/90-people-get-the-swine-flu-and-everybody-wants-to-wear
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On a scale of 1 to awesome I’m the shit.
— Gym Class Heroes, New Friend Request
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
— Jean-Paul Sartre, http://zenhabits.net/2008/02/20-things-i-wish-i-had-known-when-starting-out-in-life/
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
— Henry James, Real Simple Daily Thought
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Problem is, the more time you spend thinking about creativity, the less time you spend actually making stuff. Which is a recipe for berets.
— Merlin Mann, Merlin Mann / Twitter
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Apart from her precious [horse,] Nefertiti, her hobbies are pouting and looking martyred.
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas. 63.
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