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Did I get jiggy with Will? I would have to say no! Did I have fun with Will? I would have to say yeah! But you know, I did not jig with the man, if you know what I'm saying!

-- Bruce Greenwood

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The Christian leader cannot simply be persons who have well informed opinions about the burning issues of our time.

-- Henri J.M. Nouwen

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Descartes said: I think, therefore I am. Helvetius wants to say: I feel, therefore I want to feel pleasantly. I prefer Hobbes who claims that in order to draw a conclusion which takes us somewhere, we must say, I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.

-- Denis Diderot

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Writing is the voices inside our heads, our minds, the creativity that exists for us to, from nothing, create alternate worlds, manipulate a personality or to introduce a new kind of love, a new kind of hate or pain or happiness or wonder or... anything we want. Through words, we can do, we can be anything we want.

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A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.

-- Ewan McGregor

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Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.

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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

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There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.

-- Thomas Browne

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The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts in it. Anyone who can read, can learn to read deeply and thus live more fully.

-- Norman Cousins

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When you begin to actively participate in the creation of your life, there is never an end, even in death, for physics tells us that nothing is ever created nor destroyed, merely transformed.

-- Stephen Richards

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