"My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it."

-- Claude Monet

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“If we're 15 minutes into a lifeless, redundant, status-based 1:1 and I don't have anything sitting in my back pocket, I'm going to turn it into a performance review.”
“Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.”
“Who are beneficiaries of the Court's protection? Members of various minorities including criminals, atheists, homosexuals, flag burners, illegal immigrants (including terrorists), convicts, and pornographers.”
“Having no room of my own to "take care of things" had begun to weigh on me. I wondered if storing up ***** would have a health impact on me, positive or negative, like shinier hair or weight gain.”

Source : Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.145, Scholastic Inc.
“As Freud has shown, blunders are not the merest chance. They are the result of suppressed desires and conflicts. They are ripples on the surface of life, produced by unsuspected springs. And these may be very deep - as deep as the soul itself. The blunder may amount to the opening of a destiny.”
“Though we must never think to learn above our Bible, as long as we are here in this world, yet we must still be getting forward in it.”
“Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.”

Source : Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.7, Beard Books
“We need to be very careful when considering whether or not to change the constitution to accept same-sex marriage as this issue touches on the fundamentals of how we live.”

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