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		With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
	
	  Carl Rogers Carl Rogers
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		Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?
	
	  Barbet Schroeder Barbet Schroeder
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		I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
	
	  D. B. Sweeney D. B. Sweeney
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		Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
	
	  Fernando Botero Fernando Botero
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		My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.
	
	  Natalie Zea Natalie Zea
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		In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
	
	  Walter Kirn Walter Kirn
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		I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
	
	  Harold E. Varmus Harold E. Varmus
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		Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
	
	  E. Joseph Cossman E. Joseph Cossman
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		I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
	
	  Cara Delevingne Cara Delevingne
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		Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.
	
	  Karen Armstrong Karen Armstrong
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		It's hard separating work from personal life.
	
	  Jack McCollough Jack McCollough
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		That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
	
	  Jack Henry Abbott Jack Henry Abbott
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		Stereotypes are ways of making extremely primitive and simple differentiations. Differentiations of gender, race, class, social status - so ordinary social life is very much built upon a whole repertoire of stereotypes we carry around. And those are immediately laminated onto people, and it isn't just visual.
	
	  W. J. T. Mitchell W. J. T. Mitchell
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		The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
	
	  Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury
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		No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.
	
	  Donald Miller Donald Miller
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		I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when II've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.
was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.
	
	  Loudon Wainwright III Loudon Wainwright III
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		I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom!
	
	  Antoine de Saint-Exupery Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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		Life often has a way of negating nevers.
	
	  Beverly Jenkins Beverly Jenkins