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“How my achievements mock me!”
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“Bat doesn't hit ball, bat meets it.”
Source : May Swenson (2013). “May Swenson: Collected Poems: (Library of America #239)”, p.495, Library of America
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“I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.”
Source : FaceBook post by Debbie Reynolds from Jul 01, 2013
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“They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.”
Source : Frank McCourt (1999). “Tis: A Memoir”, p.59, Simon and Schuster
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“The guy behind the counter had been seriously adorable. Model-level cute. She had mentioned that, and Allan, her then boyfriend, hadn't taken it well. That's when she'd learned that male egos and fruit had a lot in common: Both bruised easily.”
Source : Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.149, Pan Macmillan
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“Life is like a sandwich! Birth as one slice, and death as the other. What you put in-between the slices is up to you. Is your sandwich tasty or sour?”
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“As things change in Turkey people find in religious observance a certain framework of safety, of continuity. This is quite a common phenomenon. In a strange way it's part of a democratization of society. Although religious observance seems more common these days, it's not that people who did not go to mosques have started to go to mosques. I don't know anyone in Turkey who's become a born-again Muslim. It's a question of individual choice, and it does not stop the organic secularization of Turkish society, which carries on regardless.”
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“There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.”