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“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
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“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.”
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“... the prevalent custom of educating young women only for marriage, and not for the duties and responsibilities consequent on marriage--only for appendages and dead weights to husbands--of bringing them up without an occupation, profession, or employment, and thus leaving them dependent on anyone but themselves--is an enormous evil, and an unpardonable sin.”
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“Study the past if you would define the future. --CONFUCIUS”
Source : Steve Berry (2010). “The Emperor's Tomb (with bonus short story The Balkan Escape): A Novel”, p.7, Ballantine Books
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“The greatest feeling you can get in a gym or the most satisfying feeling you can get in the gym is the pump. It feels fantastic. It's as satisfying to me as ***** is, you know, as in having sex with a woman and cumming. So can you believe how much I am in heaven? I am like getting the feeling of ***** in the gym; I'm getting the feeling of ***** at home; I'm getting the feeling of ***** backstage; when I pump up, when I pose out in front of 5000 people I get the same feeling, so I am ***** day and night. It's terrific, right? So you know, I am in heaven.”
Source : "Pumping Iron". Documentary, www.imdb.com. January 18, 1977. 
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“Top-down leaders, by withholding power from those in the ranks, deprive them of the ability to use the expertise and information vested in them to respond directly and with speed to customer concerns.”
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“Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.”
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“I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.”
Source : Edward Carpenter, Tony Brown (1990). “Edward Carpenter and Late Victorian Radicalism”, p.40, Psychology Press
