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“Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose.”
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“Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.”
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“There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven”
Source : Augustine Birrell (1922). “The Collected Essays & Addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...”
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“It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out.”
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“He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.”
Source : Eugene Field, Peter Pauper Press (1966). “A comic primer”
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“There are two hundred million idiots, manipulated by a million intelligent men.”
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“Heaven has no place for the erroneous belief that Christ died because we are worth it. Christ's death in our place had nothing to do with our worth but with the depths of our sin, the demands made by God's justice, and His eternal glory.”
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“A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness.”
