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It's the best way of telling the truth; it's a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. Beyond that [it's] delight in, and play with, language; also, a curiously intimate way of communicating with people whom you will never meet.

-- Julian Barnes

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It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

-- Edmund Hillary

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In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.

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There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.

-- Steve Maraboli

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Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.

-- Douglas Adams

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How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.

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Tucking my nose into a book makes me completely oblivious to my surroundings. I would have made a terrible spy in the army - the first person to hand me a novel would have been able to shoot my head clean off without me noticing.

-- Alyxandra Harvey

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The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too taken up with rooting out the pride she was prone to feeling in her own holiness to notice any other failings she might have had. She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.

-- Diane Setterfield

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Writing is all a lottery - I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

-- Tobias Smollett

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I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

-- Alan Greenspan

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