It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man.
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Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
Joseph Roux
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
Richard Dawkins
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
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