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If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.


Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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CHARLES BAUDELAIRE This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
DAVID LEVITHAN Peter...” She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. “Let’s not go there.”
MICHEL FABER One moment you are here, othere there, then there. Then you can't move!
DEYTH BANGER There are as many kinds of couscous as there are pastas, including dessert couscous with cinnamon.
PAULA WOLFERT Though the customer is always right, there are some customers you do not want.
JEFFREY FRY Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE There are as many opinions as there are experts.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT There are as many opinions as there are experts.
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT There are as many Hamlets as there are melancholies.
OSCAR WILDE there are as many opinions as there are men.
HELEN KELLER We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
GALILEO GALILEI There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
STENDHAL No matter where you go - there you are
CONFUCIUS There are as many festivals as there are mosquitoes after a rain.
KENT JONES There are as many opinions on chili as there are about barbecue.
LYNNE SIMMONS In truth there as as many religions as there are individuals.
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JOHN STEINBECK As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.
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GEORGE TOOKER There are at least as many galaxies in our observable universe as there are stars in our galaxy.
MARTIN REES There are as many answers to that question as people you ask it to.
BLAIR WESTLAKE When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.
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JULIET MARILLIER There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.
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WILLIAM ROTSLER There are not many things in life so beautiful as true friendship, and not many things more uncommon...
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JAMES PAYN There are lazy Minds as well as lazy Bodies.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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ELIZABETH ASTON The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah.
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FRANK VRABLIC There are many kinds of delusion.
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TYNE DALY There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.
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DR HITESH C SHETH Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to d...
JANE AUSTEN That's SHIT!

How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
DEYTH BANGER Be there next time when the happiness will visit you.
MARIANA FULGER If you haven't been there, use your imagination. Imagination takes you everywhere.
EPHDAN From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
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JERZY KOSINKSI Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.
JODI PICOULT We have them just where they want us.
JAMES T. KIRK It started somewhere from there.
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HOSHEDAR PRESS People think that Detroit is this barren wasteland. While there are parts that are not as nice as ot...
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E.A. BUCCHIANERI I credit NTI, truthfully, with everything as far as where my head is and what my goals are and dream...
JOHN KRASINSKI If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
LEO TOLSTOY If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
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DAVID BELEW Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there ar...
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LEO TOLSTOY The Kingdom of God is within you.. and all beings.
LEO TOLSTOY It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he...
LEO TOLSTOY Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
LEO TOLSTOY But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
LEO TOLSTOY Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
LEO TOLSTOY There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
LEO TOLSTOY The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
LEO TOLSTOY There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
LEO TOLSTOY War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within the...
LEO TOLSTOY The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffer...
LEO TOLSTOY It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOY Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
LEO TOLSTOY Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continue...
LEO TOLSTOY Boredom: the desire for desires.
LEO TOLSTOY If you want to be happy, be.
LEO TOLSTOY Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
LEO TOLSTOY He had never thought the question over clearly, but vaguely imagined that his wife had long suspecte...
LEO TOLSTOY Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else i...
LEO TOLSTOY Everything intelligent is so boring.
LEO TOLSTOY I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others tha...
LEO TOLSTOY Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
LEO TOLSTOY Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the histori...
LEO TOLSTOY A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he parti...
LEO TOLSTOY The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their app...
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