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.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
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There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Health
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
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He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
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Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
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-- Chinese Proverb Health
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson I could prove God statistically.
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-- Henry Ford Health
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