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Catullus
"I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two."
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Source : Gaius Valerius Catullus (1983). “The Poems of Catullus: A Bilingual Edition”, p.197, Univ of California Press
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“The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.”
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“I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.”
Source : "The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America". Book by Lawrence J. Epstein, 2001.
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“The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.”
Source : Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: Amish: The World's Squarest Teenagers" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2010.
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“Better lose your life than your soul…”
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“While it is probably a poor idea to own actively managed funds in general, it is truly a terrible idea to own them in taxable accounts... taxes are a drag on performance of up to 4 percentage points each year... many index funds allow your capital gains to grow largely undisturbed until you sell... For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.”
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“He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.”
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“It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.”
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“Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.”