Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed

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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.

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I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am. I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star

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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation. Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved...Freedom is...not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.

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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

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Home is where your books are.

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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?

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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more

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And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

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