“What did it mean for a person to be free? she would often ask herself. Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren’t you just in another, larger one?”
– Haruki Murakami
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Take a pounding – Betty White
“I don’t know why people say grow some balls. Balls are weak. Grow a vagina. Now those can take a pounding.”
– Betty White
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Sad – Unknown
“Why should you be sad? You lost someone who didn’t want to be with you. She lost someone who loved her.”
– Unknown
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Two most important days – Mark Twain
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
– Mark Twain
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Being together – Unknown
“If you’re not helping each other to become better people, then there’s no point in being together.”
– Unknown
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Reflection – Voltaire
“The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes.”
– Voltaire
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Solitude – Sir Francis Bacon
“Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”
– Sir Francis Bacon
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Risks – Leo Buscaglia
“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.”
– Leo Buscaglia
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Faith – Thomas Aquinas
“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
– Thomas Aquinas
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Better story – Unknown
“Always go for the decision that makes a better story.”
– Unknown
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Modern business rules – Unknown
“Modern business rules: If you make stuff, it’s difficult to make money. If you move it or market it, you’ll be fine.”
– Unknown
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Know so much – Herodotus
“Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.”
– Herodotus
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Procrastination – Unknown
“Procrastination is a lot like masturbation, it feels good when you do it but in the end you’re only fucking yourself.”
– Unknown
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Asshole – Raylan Givens
“If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.”
– Raylan Givens
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Relationship problems – Alain de Botton
“Most relationship problems condensed: someone is standing too close, someone is standing too far.”
– Alain de Botton