Certainly it seems that nature desires to exterminate the human race, as a thing useless to the world, and the destroyer of all created things. ― Leonardo da Vinci

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A strong woman builds her own world. She is one who is wise enough to know that it will attract the man she will gladly share it with. -- Ellen J. Barrier

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I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.

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I'm not of the religion but I'm educated enough to understand there is a misconception about it globally.

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Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

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you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will. ― Stephen King

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Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

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The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

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Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. We would have to march into Washington and sign the treaty in the White House. - Isoroku Yamamoto

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He who thinks little errs much.

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