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True, life is complex. But so are a great many accidents.


Foz Meadows

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RUFUS WAINWRIGHT No accident can be planned for, yet there are many accidents which are good for one's life.
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IVETA CHERNEVA Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly of...
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rang you over and over again and you woul...
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DAVID GEMMELL There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned p...
JAMES PAYN ...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little perfo...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER Obamacare is the wildly complex Rube Goldberg contraption it is because getting the legislation thro...
TINA BROWN Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA Anyone who goes through life trusting people without making sure they are worthy of trust is a fool....
ELIZABETH ASTON If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
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ALLY CONDIE Sometimes I wonder how many others you're texting while you're texting me.
ABDUL'RAUF HASHMI When boys get mad its not so bad
When girls get mad world WW3 is about to start!
P.C. CAST NOTHING TO DO BUT ALWAYS BUSY
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CHARLES C. MANN Life is not complex; people are just simple minded.
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PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS Politics: Poly.
MANY Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
MARGARET MEAD Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's ow...
OSCAR WILDE Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own ...
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JACK KEROUAC A bookstore is one of the many pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
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GABRIEL BYRNE Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Everybody in life is a chameleon.
MELANIE CHISHOLM Life is a grand party.
EZRA MILLER A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many b...
CRISS JAMI There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny...
STEVEN SPIELBERG Stop thinking. I've stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won't want to ...
SERGEI DOVLATOV It's hard to stay true to yourself and what you want in life when there are so many distractions...
HILARY DUFF I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from ...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Accept everything, even if it's pain, even if it's sadness, because there's nothing absolute in this...
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ALYSON NOEL ...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Every choice has a consequence, every consequence another choice. Little agonies waiting to be embra...
MCM Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Ay me! sad hours seem long.
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CANDICE S. MILLER The trouble with life
isn't that there is no answer,
but that there are so many answers
RUTH BENEDICT I had a wonderful life and was blessed with so many loving people and great friends.
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