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“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”
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“When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.”
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“Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.”
Source : "I Hate the News" by Aaron Swartz, www.aaronsw.com. October 20, 2006. 
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“Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“It's a thanksgiving to God. It's something I have wanted to do for a long time, but the record company wasn't ready for it. So I did it myself.”
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“(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.”
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“From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.”
Source : "The Garden of Proserpine" l. 81 (1866)
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“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”
Source : Speech in London, 16 Dec. 1970, in The Times 17 Dec. 1970
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“A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.”
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“I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.”
