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“You cannot escape sex. It will track you to the ends of the earth.”
Source : Jan Clausen (1981). “Mother, sister, daughter, lover: stories”
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“In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.”
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“This could very easily be taken out of context, and I think it's funny now, but I remember looking in the mirror as a kid and, it would be like for an hour at a time, and I'd be like, 'I'm just so beautiful. Everybody is so lucky that they get to look at me.' And of course that changes as you get older, but I may have held on to that little-kid feeling that was me alone in my bathroom.”
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“If you can't say it clearly, you don't understand it yourself”
Source : John Searle (2010). “Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization”, p.8, Oxford University Press
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“He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.”
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“Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal.”
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“The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.”
Source : "Do supporters of Nobel winner Liu Xiaobo really know what he stands for?" by Barry Sautman, Yan Hairong, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2010.
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“How do you turn the invisible into the visible? The first step is to define your dream precisely; the only limit to what you can achieve is the extent of your ability to define with precision that which you desire.”