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Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.


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Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
         



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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.



Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.



And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.



I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.



The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.



Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.



Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.



Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.



How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.



My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.





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We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.

We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.



Live as a villain, die as a hero

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We strive to form a single national front against the Judeo-Masonic lodges, against Moscow and the Marxist societies.

We strive to form a single national front against the Judeo-Masonic lodges, against Moscow and the Marxist societies.



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A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.



At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs.

At the root of every tantrum and power struggle are unmet needs.



Look the, the American worker has been losing - for decades now. We've seen manufacturing in decline here in the industrial Midwest.

Look the, the American worker has been losing - for decades now. We've seen manufacturing in decline here in the industrial Midwest.



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