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- Paul Erdos We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
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-- PARKINSON'S LAW For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
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-- David Bissonette "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
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-- Theodor Reik When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
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begin slitting throats.
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-- Michel de Montaigne Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
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other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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-- Albert Einstein At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
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-- Pablo Picasso Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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