"Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask."

-- Geoffrey Chaucer

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“The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.”
“When I started Rolling Stone in November 1967, the magazine's initial chapter was to cover rock & roll music with intelligence and respect. Even then, we knew that the fervor sweeping our generation encompassed more than just music.”
“When you believe in yourself and the people you surround yourself with, you will win something really big someday.”
“When you let God be God you can let humans be humans. When we place God in His rightful place in our lives, we don't struggle so much when human relationships let us down.”

Source : Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.154, Multnomah
“The boy may wrestle, when Night--working Fancy steals him to the arms Of nymph oft wish'd awake, and, 'mid the rage Of the soft tumult, ev'ry turgid cell Spontaneous disembogues its lucid store, Bland and of azure tinct.”

Source : John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”
“What gets measured, gets done. And what gets recognized gets done again, and even better.”
“What about him?â€ sheâ€™d say, finding an attractive guy to point out while they were standing in the lunch line. â€œDo you want to kiss him?â€ â€œI donâ€™t want to kiss a stranger,â€ Cath would answer. â€œIâ€™m not interested in lips out of context.”
“some kinds of beauty did not heal, but hollowed the pain even deeper.”

Source : Anne Perry (2005). “Angels in the Gloom: A Novel”, p.67, Ballantine Books

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