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-- Flannery O'Connor Every child is born a genius.
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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
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-- Oscar Wilde A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
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He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
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Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
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-- French saying Recreation and Sports
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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