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-- Voltaire You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
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-- Ellen Hubbard 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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-- Will Rogers Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Black holes are where God divided by zero.
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