Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
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It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.Jim Bishop
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The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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