I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.” ― Bertrand Russell

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart. ― Marcus Aurelius

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The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. ― Scott Westerfield

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You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince ― E.L. James

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Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t pretend that you do and, at some point, you will. — Venus Williams

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What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?

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Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. - Mary Kay Ash

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If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up. ― Anna Akhmatova

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We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

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Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life. ― Nicholas Sparks

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