Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. - Robert Louis Stevenson

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Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

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And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.

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I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap.

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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

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I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true. . . . If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.

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Bryan Cranston

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

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Sitting Bull

I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.

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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.

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Carly Fiorina

I will reform our broken visa system. Nearly half of the people in this country illegally came here on legal visas and simply never left. We need to fix that.

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