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“It doesn't matter how much you flirt the whole day, at night you'll always end up thinking about the one you truly love.”
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“Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.”
Source : John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.116, Harper Collins
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“My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.”
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“Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.”
Source : Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.212, Grove Press
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“Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?”
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“America does not like losers. Look how we treated those soldiers who came back from Vietnam. Because they lost. America likes winners.”
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“Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.”
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“Toronto's likable, but it could be a lot more, as I think Montreal is, lovable. What we need more than anything, I think, is a great pedestrian promenade. Pick a busy streetscape, close it to cars forever, and it will fill with people enjoying nothing more than the pleasure of their own company.”
