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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
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-- Countess of Blessington Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
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-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
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People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
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Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
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--Malcolm X Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
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