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Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

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I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.

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Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.

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There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

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There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.

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We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.

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Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

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The absence of love is the most abject pain.

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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.

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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

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