"In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The grand ladies with high ambitions thought her a presumptuous upstart, and lesser ladies were still more resentful. Everything she did offended someone."

-- Murasaki Shikibu

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“The atheist suicide bomber is unfaithfully committed to his mission”
“It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.”
“Maybe some people just had trouble with forever.”
“I know if I missed a day and nothing happened, then it would be much easier to miss another day. Pretty soon I wouldnâ€™t have much of a schedule, and then I'd have less motivation. It's a downward spiral that I want to avoid, so I keep the schedule sacred.”
“I have one friend to whom I've told more than I've ever told anyone, and yet there are significant territories I have and will never let him access - in large part because I'm trying to protect him, and one of the responsibilities of loving someone is protecting him or her, even if who you're protecting them from is yourself.”

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.
“I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowledgeable about myself and what I wanted, I moved into acting.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. December 11, 2009.
“The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it's as simple as that.”
“Lead generation excels when a campaign is looking to capture a piece of factual intelligence that could never be modelled or predicted through profiling and sophisticated propensity algorithms.”

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