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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
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Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Albert Camus
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C.S. Lewis
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Albert Einstein
“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
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Mark Twain
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
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Robert Frost
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Abraham Lincoln
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