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A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

— Carl Sandburg Remembrance Rock (1948)

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Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.

"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Incidentals (1904)

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

In Reckless Ecstasy (1904)

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

Cary Grant Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)

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