"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."
-Ben Elton
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"I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.“
-Ben Elton
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"I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous."
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"If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not then marriages would be truly made in heaven."
-Ben Elton
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
-George Sand
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"Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be."
-Patrick Rothfuss
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"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."
-Walt Whitman
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"Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be."
-Nora Ephron
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"Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do."
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"Keep cool anger is not an argument."
-Daniel Webster
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"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
-Thomas Jefferson
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