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“I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes—and six months later you have to start all over again.”

“I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.”

“Never floss with a stranger.”

“Before we make love, my husband takes a pain killer.”

“A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.”

“I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.”

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— Ba Jin

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"lover of his king and country, a lover of peace and the protestant interest... is absolutely necessary to the very being and subsistance of our government and without which our peace and religion cann…"

— John Locke

Philosophy1943–2006

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— Marilyn Ferguson

Literature1938–2008

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