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"An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear."

-E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

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"Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?"

-Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story

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"It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense."

-E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

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Pops added,"you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve."
"And if you do, you never get the results you expected," (Katherine) replied.

-E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

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"If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear."

-E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

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"Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible."

-E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

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"I want us to cool down for a while before we end up on horses' said Scully."

'What?' Hank asked.

'A definition of confusion.' Mulder explained, hands clasped behind his head. 'He jumped up on his horse and rode off in all directions.' He winked. 'Scully likes wise sayings like that. She hoardes fortune cookies you know.

Charles Grant, The X-Files: Goblins

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"The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life."

-Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1).

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"No other being is lesser human than the one who thinks of others as such."

-Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting (Humanism Series)

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"If you have a hobby, you be happy."

-Lailah Gifty Akita

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The strength of every individual is the grace for great work.
Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1)
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"Man is not merely born to make money. But to fulfill is mission."

-Lailah Gifty Akita

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"Too much study wears the body. BUT the truth refreshes the soul, sustains the spirit for a beautiful body."

-Lailah Gifty Akita

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"Even if there is no connection.
Even if you are far from reach.
Even if friendship is not enough.
Even if love itself is not enough.
What about apathy?
I need you."

-Nurudeen Ushawu

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"There would be a time, when you will ask for nothing but life."

-Lailah Gifty Akita

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