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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. I remember the killers, I remember the victims, even as I struggle to invent a thousand and one reasons to hope.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

William Ralph Inge

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

Instructions regarding a proposed gift of a wedding dress for her marriage to Pierre in July 1895

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

If you want work well done, select a busy man‚ the other kind has no time.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.