A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
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It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. These were his dying words.
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I played with an idea, and grew willful tossed it into the air transformed it let it escaped and recaptured it made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.
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Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
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