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-- Kant, Immanuel Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
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-- Groucho Marx Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
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-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
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-- Abraham Lincoln If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
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I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
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-- Oscar Levant There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
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