"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."

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“Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands!”

“I just want always to be a little boy and have fun.”

“Wendy, one girl is worth more than twenty boys.”

“Split my infinitives, but 'tis my hour of triumph!”

“The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.”

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— Norodom Sihanouk

Politics1953–1970

#family

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— Jeremy Bentham

Philosophy1748–1832

#life

"Those psychological observers who have accustomed themselves to consider the interior and exterior as intimately combined — as the inspiration and expiration of one living being— will readily understa…"

— Ernst

Religion1895–1998

#philosophy

"In no particular order, I could not or would not exist without air, food, water, gravity, tides, the moon, the sun, night, civilization, the laws of physics, the laws of thermodynamics, the law of the…"

— Chuck Lorre

Entertainment1952

#nature