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• Suspense is not knowing what you're up against and not knowing what you can do.
  Terror is knowing what you're up against and not knowing what you can do about it....
• A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike.
  Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away....
• We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God.
  We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mastery over yourself....
• We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God.
  We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mastery over yourself....
• There is no point in being proud of something you have no control over.
• Homer: [reading his fortune] "You will find happiness with a new love.
  [out loud] Aw, even the Chinese are against me....
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• Marge: Look, maybe this whole thing will blow over.
  [helicopters swoop over the house; news vans pull up] Home...
• Having a passionate commitment to social justice does not excuse you from knowing what in the hell you're talking about.