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-- Dale Carnegie A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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-- Slavoj Zizek Celebrities
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We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
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When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
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"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
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