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A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn’t help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest.Louisa May Alcott
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One should use common words to say uncommon thingsArthur Schopenhauer
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All right, so you believe in Santa Claus, and I'll believe in the 'Great Pumpkin.' The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere! (Linus)Charles M. Schulz
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Most often, what I don’t know will have a vastly greater bearing on my life that what I do know.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Ignorance paired with arrogance (naïveté) is logical, but arrogance paired with awareness (ego) is toxic.Richie Norton
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The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?… There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There’s probably a third level, too–how I want to think I feel.Chuck Klosterman
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We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we've raised a pack of innocents who seem to be about to stumble into them at every turn just from sheer stupidity!Samuel R. Delany
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We know little of the things for which we prayGeoffrey Chaucer
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There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.Wayne Gerard Trotman
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The articles were extremely eye-opening. Not just in Teen Vogue but in Seventeen and CosmoGirl as well. They were all about being yourself, staying natural, loving your body as is, and going green! The messages were the exact opposite of Vik and Viv's.Hmmmmm. Frankie turned to face the full-length mirror that was up against the yellow wardrobe. She opened her robe and examined her body. Fit, muscular, and exquisitely proportioned, she agreed with the magazines. So what if her skin was mint? Or her limbs were attached with seams? According to the magazines, which were - no offense! - way more in touch with the times than her parents were, she was suppose to love her body just the way it was. And she did! Therefor if the normies read magazines (which obviously they did, because they were in them), then they would love her, too. Natural was in. Besides she was Daddy's perfect little girl. And who didn't love perfect? .Lisi Harrison
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Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of responsibility or complicity. .Christopher Hitchens
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When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons.Ben Carson
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I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand what we understood in the instantaneous manner in which we understood it.Audre Lorde
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Optimists are usually inexperienced.Wayne Gerard Trotman
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It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.Jon Krakauer
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She had never had a friend like this, in her private room, combing her hair, listening to her, talking about silly nonsense and the uselessness of one's parents; how the future was perfect, because they hadn't lived it yet.Jessie Burton
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I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can't change over.Daphne Du Maurier
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Does anyone act more like an overserious senior citizen with time running out on their chance for immortality than someone in their twenties?Patton Oswalt
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Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist makingdevastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious orpompous.David Foster Wallace
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I pour blood on my naiveté, your apathy, and your betrayal tonight.Sreesha Divakaran
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The world’s crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I’m just one of them, self-consciously chasing after dreams that will never come true.Haruki Murakami
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How are babies made?" Visibly startled, Jordan turned and opened his mouth, as if he intended to speak, but for some reason no words came out. At first Alexandra was puzzled by his involuntary silence, but then understanding dawned. She shook her head and sighed with sympathy for their mutual plight. " You don't know either, do you?Judith McNaught