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god gives but does not share" --haitian proverb

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What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated. Leo Buscaglia
Bobby Clarke quote: "I've discovered that the less I say, the more rumors I start."
I've discovered that the less I say, the more rumors I start. Bobby Clarke
The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations. Georg Simmel
Russell Simmons quote: "When you do good by the world, the world will do good by you"
When you do good by the world, the world will do good by you Russell Simmons
. . . you can't do anything absolutely by reason. That's because reason depends on postulates. Postulates defy proof and yet they are essential to reason. Mark Helprin
I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preservemy body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, beforethis omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends. Virginia Woolf
You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing. Roger Kahn
Francois de La Rochefoucauld quote: "There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand..."
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing strengthens the case for scepticism more than the fact that there are people who are not sceptics. If they all were, they would be wrong. Blaise Pascal
After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down. Barbara Cartland
Publilius Syrus quote: "You should not live one way in private, another in public."
You should not live one way in private, another in public. Publilius Syrus
Gene Wilder quote: "Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film..."
Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction! Gene Wilder
But don't you think one can be happy when on is married? Perfectly happy. But the happiness of a married man, my dear Gerald, depends on the people he has not married. But if one is in love? One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. Oscar Wilde
No one's been in the kitchen since he left it. On the table are his cup, Theo's empty water bottle and, beside it, the remote control. It's stil faintly surprising, this fidelity of objects, sometimes reassuring, sometimes sinister. Ian Mcewan
The Supreme Court of the United States is hereby commanded to try Andrew Johnson for usurpation of our Imperial authority and prerogatives, and if found guilty, behead him or send him here to black the Emperor's boots. Joshua A. Norton