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(On having being just proposed to)'Have you been thinking of this for long?' she managed jerkily, praying for the shock to recede so that she could behave a little more normally.'Let's say it crept up on me,' he suggested lightly.That didn't sound very romantic. Muggers crept up on you; so did old age.

-- Lynne Graham

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They lived under a just and moderate government, and they admitted that one bond of their fidelity was that their rulers were the better men.

-- Livy

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Most women are not as young as they are painted.

-- Beerbohm, Max

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Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

-- Jamie Lee Curtis

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Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write can surely review

-- James Russell Lowell

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I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.

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No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.

-- Christopher Dawson

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Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

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My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

-- Rudolph A. Marcus

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Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

-- Edward Thorndike

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