Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.― Mark Twain

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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. ― Thomas Sowell

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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. — Jack Layton

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Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine. ― Criss Jami

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The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing. — Blaise Pascal

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I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man. — Joe Biden

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Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.- Dwayne Johnson

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May your troubles be less and your blessings be more. — Irish Blessing

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