"I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison."

-- Anais Nin

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“Whatever the cost of repentance, it is swallowed up in the joy of forgiveness.”
“The thing that men and women need to do is stick together Progressions can't be made if we're separate forever”
“Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people. Before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children.”

Source : Cory Booker (2016). “United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good”, p.173, Ballantine Books
“Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.”
“So much of life is what you roll and where you land.”
“Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.”
“I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentially spiritual, too.”
“Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her heart, so I forgot myself entirely. Forgot the damned and questing preternatural thing that doted on mortal skin and mortal clothing. Paris overwhelmed, and lightened and rewarded more richly than any promise.”

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