07
Mar

- “Dreams are answers to questions we haven’t yet figured out how to ask.” – X-Files

- “All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.” – Elias Canetti

- “Dreams are only thoughts you didn’t have time to think about during the day.” – Unknown

- “A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.” – The Talmud

- “Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” – Marsha Norman

- “A dream has power to poison sleep.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mutability”

- “Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.” – William Dement

- “Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” – Edgar Cayce

- “I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.” – Rene Descartes, “Meditations on First Philosophy”

- “Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.” – Henri Amiel

- “There’s a long, long trail a-winding into the land of my dreams.” – Stoddard King, Jr.

- “Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.” – E.M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist

- “Dreams digest the meals that are our days.” – Astrid Alauda, Dyspeptic Enlightenment

- “Pay attention to your dreams – God’s angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep.” – The Angels’ Little Instruction Book, Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994

- “One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.” – Evelyn Waugh

- “Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language.” – Gail Godwin

- “Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.” – Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence

- “Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.” – Vivian Mercer

- “Dreams are free, so free your dreams.” – Astrid Alauda

- “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.” – Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

- “For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.” – Samuel Lover, Rory O’ More

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courage 300x256 Courage Quotes- “We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” – Maya Angelou
- “My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou
- “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” – Maya Angelou

- “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” – Maya Angelou

- “One man with courage is a majority.” – Thomas Jefferson

- “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” – Albert Einstein

- “Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.” – Ronald Reagan

- “There are no easy answers’ but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” – Ronald Reagan

- “You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence.” – Abraham Lincoln

- “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill

- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

- “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston Churchill

- “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain

- “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” – Mark Twain

- “Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” – John Wooden

- “Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?” – William Shakespeare

- “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” – C. S. Lewis

- “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” – Benjamin Franklin

- “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” – John F. Kennedy

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26
Feb

- “Arizona’s forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona.” – Rick Renzi

- “Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.” – Phyllis Schlafly

- “By March ‘87 we’re down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we’re down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.” – Eddie Campbell

- “Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.” – Robert A. Heinlein

- “Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866.” – Henry Morton Stanley

- “Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.” – Zhu Rongji

- “Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.” – Thomas Carlyle

- “Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.” – Lyman Abbott

- “Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.” – Joshua Chamberlain

- “For better or worse, I’ve always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I’m fabulous!” – Michael Musto

- “For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn’t rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when the Americans moved in March and April of 2003.” – Juan Cole

- “For me the march was a labor – a labor of love – but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn’t standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy.” – Andre Braugher

- “For myself, I believed that that 13th of March should see a fight to the finish, cost what it might! for if Bloemfontein was to be taken, it would only be over our dead bodies.” – Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

- “From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.” – Scott Hamilton

- “Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.” – Christian Lous Lange

- “Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.” – John Hannah

- “Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.” – Billy Joel

- “I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.” – James Herriot

- “I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.” – George Armstrong Custer

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02
Feb

- “Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.” – Bill Maher

- “A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.” – Carrie Snow

- “You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping.” – Cindy Crawford

- “Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.” – Laurence J. Peter

- “The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.” – Unknown

- “A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.” – Arnold Haultain

- “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” – Charlotte Whitton

- “Women are always beautiful.” – Ville Valo

- “The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy.” – Ellery Queen

- “Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.” – Mae West

- “Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.” – Nicole Hollander

- “Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.” – Unknown

- “Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage.” – Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly

- “A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.” – Chauncey Mitchell Depew

- “The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself.” – Elizabeth Metcalf

- “There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women.” – Madeleine K. Albright

- “A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” – Oscar Wilde

- “There’s something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that.” – Harold Robbins

- “When a man talks dirty to a woman, it’s sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it’s $3.95 a minute.” – Unknown

- “Men get laid, but women get screwed.” – Quentin Crisp

- “The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges.” – Germaine Greer

- “Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.” – Ovid

- “Howiver, I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish: God Almighty made ‘em to match the men.” – George Eliot, “The Harvest Supper”, Adam Bede

- “Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn’t want to own one.” – W.C. Fields

- “Women really do rule the world. They just haven’t figured it out yet. When they do, and they will, we’re all in big big trouble.” – Doctor Leon

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29
Jan

- “I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.” – Woody Allen

- “At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ” – Jean Houston

- “Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.” – Unknown

- “Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.” – Henry Ward Beecher

- “Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.” – Jack Handey, “Deep Thoughts”, Saturday Night Live

- “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” – Unknown

- “Laughter is an instant vacation.” – Milton Berle

- “What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!” – Agnes Repplier

- “So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.” – Gordon W. Allport

- “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” – Victor Borge

- “What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.” – Yiddish Proverb

- “When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing each other.” – Alan Alda

- “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” – Kurt Vonnegut

- “A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” – Irish Proverb

- “Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.” – Bob Newhart

- “A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.” – Puzant Kevork Thomajan

- “There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh.” – Françoise Sagan

- “I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, «Ain’t that the truth.»” – Quincy Jones

- “Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.” – Henri Bergson

- “Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.” – Max Eastman

- “A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh.” – Raymond Hitchcock

- “Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.” – Kurt Vonnegut

- “Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.” – Anna Fellows Johnston

- “No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.” – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, chapter 4

- “You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.” – Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

- “With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.” – Abraham Lincoln

- “Whoever said “laughter is the best medicine” never had gonorrhea.” – Kat Likkel and John Hoberg, My Name Is Earl, “Robbed a Stoner Blind”, original airdate 16 November 2006

- “Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.” – Ken Kesey

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26
Jan

- “If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.” – Henny Youngman

- “Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.” – Richard Whately

- “The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.” – Jean Kerr, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, 1957

- “I’d like mornings better if they started later.” – Unknown

- “For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?” – Thornton Wilder

- “Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.” – Robert Brault

- “Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.” – Elbert Hubbard

- “The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning – and the younger generation doesn’t think much of it either.” – John J. Welsh

- “If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters.” – Unknown

- “Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.” – Jean Giraudoux

- “The sun is but a morning star.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

- “There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.” – Unknown

- “There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.” – Unknown

- “I can see the orange haze on the horizon as the morning exhales a yawn, and seems to be ready to rise.” – Jeb Dickerson

- “I have a “carpe diem” mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet.” – Joanne Sherman

- “Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.” – Josh Billings

- “The plans that I made when horizontal are working out now that I’m vertical.” – Betsy Cañas Garmon

- “Luxury is an ancient notion. There was once a Chinese mandarin who had himself wakened three times every morning simply for the pleasure of being told it was not yet time to get up.” – Argosy

- “One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.” – Robert Brault

- “The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.” – Thomas Jefferson

- “I’ll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time.” – Emily Dickinson

- “To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.” – Henry David Thoreau

- “Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.” – Ambrose Bierce

- “No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.” – Robert Lynd

- “Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.” – William Feather

- “Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience – unless they are still up.” – Ellen Goodman

- “I don’t think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.” – Rita Rudner

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buddha quotes 300x287 Buddha Quotes- “A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.”
- “A jug fills drop by drop.”
- “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”
- “All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.”
- “All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?”

- “Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.”

- “An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”

- “An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”

- “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”

- “Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”

- “Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.”

- “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

- “Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”

- “Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.”

- “Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”

- “Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.”

- “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”

- “Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.”

- “He is able who thinks he is able.”

- “He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.”

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17
Jan

- “A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.” – Orlando Bloom

- “A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.” – Albert Szent-Gyorgi

- “A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.” – James Joyce

- “A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.” – James Joyce

- “A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.” – Robert Morgan

- “Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.” – George G. Simpson

- “And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.” – Adam Weishaupt

- “And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me.” – Juan Goytisolo

- “As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia.” – Harry Johnston

- “As the Nation’s primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery.” – Judy Biggert

- “As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.” – Ivan Pavlov

- “Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.” – Arthur Keith

- “But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of – the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.” – J. L. Austin

- “But I’m an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.” – Karlheinz Stockhausen

- “But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.” – William Shatner

- “But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.” – Joseph Rotblat

- “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

- “Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man’s onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.” – Albert Pike

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09
Jan

- “There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.” – Elizabeth Lawrence

- “Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.” – John Betjeman

- “Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.” – William Wordsworth, “To a Butterfly”

- “Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.” – Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911

- “We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.” – George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

- “Childhood is the most beautiful of all life’s seasons.” – Unknown

- “Childhood is a promise that is never kept.” – Ken Hill

- “Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.” – Katherine Anne Porter

- “There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” – Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

- “When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood.” – Sam Ewing

- “In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.” – Robert Brault

- “The greatest poem ever known
Is one all poets have outgrown:
The poetry, innate, untold,
Of being only four years old.” – Christopher Morley, To a Child

- “If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.” – Tom Stoppard

- “I’d give all wealth that years have piled,
The slow result of Life’s decay,
To be once more a little child
For one bright summer day.” – Lewis Carroll, “Solitude”

- “It is never too late to have a happy childhood.” – Tom Robbins

- “What we remember from childhood we remember forever – permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.” – Cynthia Ozick

- “The childhood shows the man
As morning shows the day.” – John Milton, Paradise Regained

- “Childhood is a short season.” – Helen Hayes

- “He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.” – Herbert Gold

- “Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.” – Unknown

- “The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.” – Ellen Glasgow

- “Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.” – Malcolm de Chazal

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- “Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” – John F. Kennedy

- “Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. ” – Abraham Lincoln

- “People with opinions just go around bothering each other.” – Buddha

- “To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility. Its condemnation may be allowed to rest on this common argument, not the worse for being common.” – John Stuart Mill

- “My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.” – William Jones

- “We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.” – John Stuart Mill

- “The world is governed by opinion.” – Thomas Hobbes

- “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” – Marcus Aurelius

- “It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.” – William Ralph Inge

- “When I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you!” – Unknown

- “Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” – John F Kennedy

- “Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.” – Katherine Mansfield

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