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If we don't change the direction we are going,
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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-- D. H. Lawrence The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
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- Friedrich Nietzsche Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
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