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"Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too."
"You're Totally Fucked' Defined [10w] What's before you is hopeless and behind you is negligible."
"A person is a person through other persons.None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family."
"Enemies {couplet} Ne'er shall man's enemies been drawn so near,then when he seeketh to compare."
"The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof."
"There's a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will."
"Oy Vey Haiku (g)Nat's sphincter clenched.The skinhead asked, 'You a Jew?Minyan's one man short."
"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back."
"What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care."
"Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise."
"Wisdom is justified by all her children.Luke 7:35"
"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them."
"Evil Thoughts [10w] Believing 'You're either with us or against us' is evil."
"Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first."
"A leader should always be open to criticism, not silencing dissent. Any leader who does not tolerate criticism from the public is afraid of their dirty hands to be revealed under heavy light. And such a leader is dangerous, because they only feel secure in the darkness. Only a leader who is free from corruption welcomes scrutiny; for scrutiny allows a good leader to be an even greater leader."
"Spineless [10w] There are more spineless men on the planet than jellyfish."
"Comedy vs. Satire [10w] Comedy pokes fun at society's self-inflation;satire deflates the balloon."
"Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
"Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted."