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“It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.”
Source : "Painkiller Deathstreak" by Nicholson Baker, www.newyorker.com. August 9, 2010. 
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“Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.”
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“Don't you ever wish you were someone else. You were meant to be the way you are exactly. Don't you ever say you don't like the way you are. When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.”
Source : Song: Stay the Same, 1999
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“Just don't pollute something that's not dirty. I want my kids to be happy and I want them to be themselves. I was saying to a friend the other day, 'Remember, our kids are not us.' They're not. Sometimes we're trying to fix things that happened to us or projecting [onto them], and that's a terrible, terrible trap.”
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“Keep a minimum of 15†between coffee tables and sofas”
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“Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.”
Source : Héctor Tobar (2011). “The Barbarian Nurseries: A Novel”, p.257, Macmillan
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“A man talking fast has something to hide.”
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“THERE IS NO mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn--or worse, indifference--cleaves to them, or they to it, and so they live each day within a shroud of yesterdays. The happy man does not look back. He doesn't look ahead. He lives in the present.”
Source : Jed Rubenfeld (2008). “The Interpretation of Murder”, p.12, Hachette UK
