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"While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too." »Alexander Pope
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"What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir." »Author Unknown
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"'But it is always interesting when one doesn't see,' she added. 'If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way around.'" »Agatha Christie
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"Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity." »Luther Standing Bear
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"It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying." »Virginia
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"I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty." »Thomas Jefferson
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"If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the world." »Joan Boysenko, Pocketful of Miracles
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"Lacey shrugged bashfully. "Do you think I'm superficial?" "Well, yeah." I thought of myself standing outside Becca's bedroom, hoping she'd take off her shirt. "But so am I," I added. "So is everyone."" »John Green
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"In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon." »Horace
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"In the beginning was the word. But by the time the second word was added to it, there was trouble. For with it came syntax..." »John Simon
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""There are certainly moments," said Chad, "when you seem to me too good to be true. Yet if you are true," he added, "that seems to be all that need concern me."" »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eleventh, Chapter 1
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"From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of 8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone." »Barbara Ehrenreich
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"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable." »Joseph Addison
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"I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. (referring to America)" »Albert Einstein
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"The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it." »Albert Camus
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