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A frequent feature on this site; feel free to comment on the quote or to supply a competing quote.So I hollered up to God: 'Why is my life so jacked up? Why has all this pain and misery come to me? W...
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A frequent feature on this site; feel free to comment on the quote or to supply a competing quote.You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first...
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A frequent feature on this site; feel free to comment on the quote or to supply a competing quote.He is the best man who - when making his plans - fears and reflects on everything that can happen to ...
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A frequent feature on this site; feel free to comment on the quote or to supply a competing quote.I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed b...
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A frequent feature on this site; feel free to comment on the quote or to supply a competing quote.Life is like Friday on a soap opera. It gives you the illusion that everything is going to wrap up, a...
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A frequent feature on this site; feel free to comment on the quote or to supply a competing quote.As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can p...
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A frequent feature on this site; feel free to comment on the quote or to supply a competing quote.The biographical approach to history exemplified in 'Life and Times of So and So' is generally admitt...
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A frequent feature on this site; feel free to comment on the quote or to supply a competing quote.True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is al...
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A frequent feature on this site; feel free to comment on the quote or to supply a competing quote.The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is...
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A frequent feature on this site; feel free to comment on the quote or to supply a competing quote.A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip a...
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A frequent feature on this site; feel free to comment on the quote or to supply a competing quote.In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is ...
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A frequent feature on this site; feel free to comment on the quote or to supply a competing quote.Man turns his back on his family, well, he just ain't no good. -- Bruce Springsteen, "Highway Patro...
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A frequent feature on this site; feel free to comment on the quote or to supply a competing quote.The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part u...
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A frequent feature on this site; feel free to comment on the quote or to supply a competing quote.Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he...
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A frequent feature on this site; feel free to comment on the quote or to supply a competing quote.Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow...
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A frequent feature on this site; feel free to comment on the quote or to supply a competing quote.Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. -- Henrik Tikkanen...