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We are an impossibility

 


We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. - Ray Bradbury

The higher the buildings, the lower the morals. - Noel Coward

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. - Benjamin Franklin

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. - Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. - Cicero

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. - Mark Twain

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. - Thomas Paine

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. - Oscar Wilde

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - George S. Patton

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. - George Orwell

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