"Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?”

“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

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— Roger Ebert

Literature1942–2013

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"there is time to play...and then there are times to work hard and get my fans an album."

— Justin Bieber

Music1994

#time

"The soil would have soon fallen into the hands of United States capitalists. The products are so valuable in commerce that emigration there would have been encouraged; the emancipated race of the Sout…"

— Ulysses S. Grant

Politics1822–1885

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"‘If you are an admin, or if you just have a lot of pull because you are popular because you have a lot of views and stroke the right backs, if you are in the in-crowd then you have a lot more authorit…"

— Larry Sanger

Philosophy1968

#justice