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“If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.”
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“To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual agreement though the human being holds most of the cards.”
Source : Mark Doty (2009). “Dog Years: A Memoir”, p.1, Harper Collins
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“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.”
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“Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly pain in football during a head-on collision, pain in other sports on the occasion of a serious injury. That was more the threat of pain; in rowing there was the absolute guarantee of it every time.”
Source : David Halberstam (2012). “The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal”, p.73, Open Road Media
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“I personally apologize to any person who felt anything less than respected and valued by myself.”
Source : "SHELLEY QUITS / Secretary of state says controversies over fund raising, use of federal money and his volatile temper damaged his office's 'ability to function effectively'" by Christian Berthelsen, Vanessa Hua and John Wildermuth, www.sfgate.com. February 5, 2005. 
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“If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.”
Source : Robert Hewison (1987). “The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline”, Methuen
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“I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television.”
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“I was lucky to grow up with phenomenal parents who were into talking about things. When something hit me hard as a kid, we'd just talk about it. I'm usually pretty open about what's going on with me. I'm not a great actor in the sense that I can't fake it if I'm going through something difficult.”
