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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

-- Horace

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There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

-- David Foster Wallace

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God is never tired of bringing the sun out every morning, taking it in the evenings and bringing out the moon.

-- Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

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The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a new job so I could buy a computer. It could all change though. In five years, I could be back at some daily newspaper, which wouldn't be so bad.

-- Chuck Klosterman

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Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

-- Anton Chekhov

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Psalm 37:44 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

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Our love is old, our lives are old, And death shall come amain; Should it come today, what man may say We shall not live again?

-- Langdon Smith

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A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

-- Robert M. Hutchins

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A 65 year old woman questioning herself is no different than a 15 year old girl launching herself.

-- Linda Robinson

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