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Harper Lee
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
— Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
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R.A. Salvatore
"How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?"
— R.A. Salvatore (Streams of Silver)
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Samuel Beckett
""Try again.
Fail Again.
Fail Better.""
— Samuel Beckett
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Douglas Adams
"It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn't actually get you anywhere."
— Douglas Adams (So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish)
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Finley Peter Dunne
"The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual."
— Finley Peter Dunne
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"You have to reinvent yourself every day, and that means being a pioneer."
— Frederic de Narp President and CEO of Cartier
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"Who are you? What kind of world do you want?"
— Mohamad Yunis
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Tabitha Robin
"Being busy is better than being bored. Bored left a long time ago. Busy is always around for me. "
— Tabitha Robin
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"Paul McCartney: "I've got to admit it's getting better, a little better, all the time."
John Lennon: "Can't get no worse.""
— Paul McCartney John Lennon
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"The high point of your life was when you knocked me down"
— Nancy Farmer A girl named Disaster
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" "Everything is going to be fine.”

I hate it when people say that, people who have absolutely no idea of what’s coming next. They turn you into an idiot for even asking."
— Jenny Valentine
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