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“It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.”
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“Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.”
Source : Karen Finerman (2013). “Finerman's Rules: Secrets I'd Only Tell My Daughters About Business and Life”, p.49, Hachette UK
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“I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun.”
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“No fool can play chess, and only fools do.”
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“Every man must be made to realize that further retreat is impossible. He must realize with his mind and heart that this is a matter of life and death of the Soviet state, of the life and death of the people of our country...the Nazi troops must be stopped now, before it is too late.”
Source : Statement made in World War II, as a commissar on the southern front, as quoted in "Leonid I. Brezhnev: Pages from his Life" by Academy of Sciences of the USSR, p. 49, 1978.
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“There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.”
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“I am - since I was a child - curious about everything. I like to look at how things work and why people are the way they are.”
Source : "Actor Lela Loren: Getting grounded, sweating it out, and loving yourself". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 21, 2015. 
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“The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.”
