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A century ago people would find a decent person who lived in their neighborhood. Their families would meet and, after they decided neither party seemed like a murderer, the couple would get married and have a kid, all by the time they were twenty-two. Today people spend years of their lives on a quest to find the perfect person, a soul mate. — Aziz Ansari

After his remarks upon suffrage he abruptly questioned her about herself. His kindliness and the firmness of his personality enveloped her and she accepted him as one who had a right to know what she thought and wore and ate and read. He was positive. He had grown from a sketched-in stranger to a friend, whose gossip was important news. She noticed the healthy solidity of his chest. His nose, which had seemed irregular and large, was suddenly virile. — Sinclair Lewis

In any given age it is only a few extremists who are right. — James Cook

Finding a 'sacrificial lamb' on whom to tag blame for complicated problems is an important instrument in the toolkit of politicians, because it deflects blame for the nation's economic woes away from their own regulatory lapses, economic mismanagement and coddling to labor unions. — Clayton Christensen

I'm secure enough in myself to wear panties with bows on them. Besides, they are comfy and soft."
"I bet." He almost purred.
I gulped. — Ilona Andrews

Too many live in the future. If you keep living in the future, in what may be, then the future gets shorter every minute. — Karina Halle

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. — Henry Van Dyke

Awesome. Trace, you're one lucky son of a ... very lovely mother. — Joss Stirling

I at once ordered a secret search within the city, for every Martian noble maintains a secret service of his own. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet. — Jacques Wirtz

How can you regret never having found true love? That's like saying you regret not being born a genius. People don't have control over such things. It either happens or it doesn't. It's a gift - a present that most never get. It's more like a miracle, really, when you think of it. I mean, first you have to find that person, and then you have to get to know them to realize just what they mean to you - that right there is ridiculously difficult. Then ... then that person has to feel the same way about you. It's like searching for a specific snowflake, and even if you manage to find it, that's not good enough. You still have to find its matching pair. What are the odds? — Michael J. Sullivan

I truly believe I've been blessed by God, and God walks with me — Tupac Shakur

There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything. — Robert De Niro

The inhabitants are numerous and happy ... Throuhout the country the people do not kill any living creature, nor drink intoxicating liquor, they do not keep pigs and fowl, and do not sell live cattle; in the markets there are no butcher shops and no dealers in intoxicating drink ... Only the Chandalas (lowest cast) are fisherman and hunters and sell flesh meat. — Faxian

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