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“When the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only in appearance. Slowly, slowly the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise, which only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche. And when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst.”
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“For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.”
Source : "Epistulae". Book by Pliny the Younger, III. 4,
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“Scratch my back with a hack saw!”
Source : "Cow-kicked: FSN fires Lange as Penguins' TV voice". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 30, 2006.
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“I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.”
Source : "Interview with Gish Jen: Tiger Writer". Interview With Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. December 1, 2013. 
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“Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Even your super weirdo creep cousin.”
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“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.”
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“Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.”
