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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

"Let each become all that he was created capable of being."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."

"Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11."

"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."
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"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."

"Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other."

"Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle."

"Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us."

"Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart."

"If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age."

"The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised."
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