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Editorial cartoonist Frank Tyger, quoted in Forbes.com
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.”
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“I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.”
Henrik Ibsen, quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.”
George Santayana, quoted in the Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger
“If I rest, I rust.”
Plácido Domingo, quoted in the London Observer
