"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."
-Lily Tomlin
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"Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?"
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"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
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"If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?"
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"Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed."
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"I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework."
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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
-Mark Twain
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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
-Oscar Wilde
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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."
-John Keats
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"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
-Khalil Gibran
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"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
-Carl Jung
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