As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. - George Bernard Shaw

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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.

George Bernard Shaw

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

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It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

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No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

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On this International Day of UN Peacekeepers, let us pay tribute to the men and women from countries across the world who serve selflessly, tirelessly and fearlessly in UN peacekeeping operations. Let us remember the heroes who have laid down their lives in lands far from their own in the service of peace. And let us reaffirm our commitment to building a world free from the scourge of war.

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Kate Dickie

I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.

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John Donne

Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!

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William Butler Yeats

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Henry Louis Gates

The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the 20 who arrived in Jamestown in 1619. All of us had been taught that. Well, guess what? The first African came to Florida in 1513. And the huge shock is we know his name, Juan Garrido, and that he wasn't a slave. He was free! This brother was a conquistador who came with Ponce de Leon. He was looking for the Fountain of Youth just like the white people were.

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