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What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we

What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death. – Diane Ackerman, An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain

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Each one of us is alone in the world… We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919

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We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. – Jean Guitton

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We all have to escape from this thing called life sometimes. Maybe we use substances to do it. Maybe we use religion. Maybe we use exercise. Maybe we use anger. But we all have to do it. How we do it is what defines us. – Dan Pearce, author of the Single Dad Laughing blog, www.danoah.com

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Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. – Henry Van Dyke, The Prison and the Angel

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Being ready isnt enough you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change. – Pat Riley

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Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process. – Lauryn Hill

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