No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
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He was right. In those first days after the President's admission to the nation, even his staunchest supporters had been scarcely able to contain their rage. I wish, ... I had the guts to tell him what I really think.
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