“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?”
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“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?”
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“Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.”
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“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
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“When you walk a life of honesty, you live a life of truth.”
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“When I begin to feel tired and do not want to work anymore, I see my members next to me working so hard without taking a break. When I see the members like that, I end up thinking a lot. Bec...”
“But that wasn't what happened. What happened was they drove to Harry's and parked the Camaro next to an Audi and a Lexus and Gansey ordered flavors of gelato until the table wouldn't hold an...”
“The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous,...”
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“Be thankful for a breath of fresh air to be alive and well. Allow love and happiness to penetrate throughout your mind and soul. Take time to relax and live in the moment, the now, the prese...”
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“[The Old Astronomer to His Pupil] Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet, When I share my later science, sitting humbly at his feet; He may know the law of all things, y...”
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“Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and pee...”
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“We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.”
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“We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.”
“We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.”
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“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You ju...”
“Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won...”
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“And then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him and ou...”
“The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came a-tumbling down. This conventional narrative is soothing,...”
“I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”
“Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we're settling for.”
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“Horses make a landscape look beautiful.”
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“If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.”
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“When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.”
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“Thought I couldn't live without you It's gonna hurt when it heals too Even though I really love you I'm gonna smile cause I deserve to Quickly I'm learning to love again All I know is I'mma...”
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“When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other huma...”
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“We live in a rainbow of chaos.”
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“If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.”
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“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.”
“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”
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“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness th...”
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“He was dying all his life.”
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“In Sudan, we have been targeted by western countries because we have rejected their hegemony on Sudan and turned their companies away that were only interested in oil.”
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“The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.”
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“Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.”
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“If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about.”
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“I love 'Harry Potter' and JK Rowling - don't laugh at me!”
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“Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.”
“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
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“I believe in public ownership, but I have never favoured the remote nationalised model of the postwar era.”
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“There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if i...”
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“"It matters not what someone is born, but what they will grow to be."”
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“Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.”
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“Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.”
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“Real life can never have a written lie all over it.”
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“Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.”
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“Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.”
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“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.”
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“Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.”
“Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only thi...”
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