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It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.


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... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.



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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?



Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.



Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.



Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.



I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.



I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.



My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.



Lovers should also have their days off.

Lovers should also have their days off.



Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.

Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.





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Believe in yourself, don't let no man define your future, work hard at your trade as if no man exist to help you and focus should be your lens against distractions.

Believe in yourself, don't let no man define your future, work hard at your trade as if no man exist to help you and focus should be your lens against distractions.



Given the option, would you rather choose the right path, even though it’s difficult, or the easy route, knowing that you’ll be compromising your standards?

Given the option, would you rather choose the right path, even though it’s difficult, or the easy route, knowing that you’ll be compromising your standards?



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Should I be what I think? But I think about being so many things!



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Wouldn't it be lovely if death gave us a day's notice so giants like George Michael could see how much they were revered and adored.



Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.



By the way, if I have my own cult of personality with my own geodetic dome in western Massachusetts, I will have a hurt yurt for anyone who crosses me.

By the way, if I have my own cult of personality with my own geodetic dome in western Massachusetts, I will have a hurt yurt for anyone who crosses me.



We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.



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