• Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 41 votes · 89 reads

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• Sexual love is undoubtedly one of the chief things in life, and the union of mental and bodily satisfaction in the enjoyment of love is one of its culminating peaks. Apart from a few queer fanatics, all the world knows this and conducts its life according

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.3 · 23 votes · 115 reads

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• Skill makes love unending.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  5.0 · 46 votes · 182 reads

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• Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 21 votes · 151 reads

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• Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 15 votes · 110 reads

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• Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

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  Peter de Vries

  NovelistAmerican1910 · 20th century

  3.6 · 29 votes · 111 reads

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• Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.6 · 15 votes · 194 reads

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• Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.0 · 20 votes · 177 reads

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• Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

  

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  WriterRussian1821 · 19th century

  3.2 · 44 votes · 170 reads

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• Talk doesn't cook rice.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.3 · 51 votes · 92 reads

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• Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  4.7 · 63 votes · 200 reads

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• Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.2 · 60 votes · 144 reads

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• That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.9 · 29 votes · 6 reads

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• The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

  

  John Locke

  PhilosopherEnglish1632 · 17th century

  4.6 · 56 votes · 39 reads

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• The ancestor of every action is thought.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.5 · 7 votes · 104 reads

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• The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.9 · 49 votes · 106 reads

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• The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.0 · 25 votes · 58 reads

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• The best way to get something done is to begin.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 44 votes · 82 reads

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• The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.5 · 19 votes · 75 reads

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• The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  4.8 · 27 votes · 142 reads

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• The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  5.0 · 47 votes · 20 reads

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• The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.4 · 32 votes · 68 reads

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• The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.1 · 60 votes · 198 reads

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• The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.6 · 58 votes · 179 reads

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• The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.4 · 55 votes · 188 reads

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• The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

  

  Thomas Fuller

  AuthorBritish1608 · 17th century

  3.2 · 17 votes · 187 reads

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• The greatest step is out the door.

  

  German proverb

  German

  4.8 · 34 votes · 74 reads

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• The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.8 · 40 votes · 8 reads

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• The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.2 · 50 votes · 157 reads

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• The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.3 · 8 votes · 176 reads

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• The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  5.0 · 37 votes · 59 reads

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• The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

  

  Hermann Hesse

  PoetGerman1877 · 19th century

  3.1 · 57 votes · 200 reads

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• The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.6 · 23 votes · 58 reads

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• The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  3.0 · 42 votes · 62 reads

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• The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.4 · 16 votes · 181 reads

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• The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. Albert Einstein It is the function of art to renew

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  Anaïs Nin

  AuthorFrench1903 · 20th century

  4.4 · 42 votes · 11 reads

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• The only way to start is to start.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 21 votes · 27 reads

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• The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 11 votes · 42 reads

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• The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

  

  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

  PoetFrench1636 · 17th century

  3.2 · 52 votes · 48 reads

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• The proper study of mankind is woman.

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  Henry Brooks Adams

  NovelistAmerican1838 · 19th century

  3.4 · 64 votes · 109 reads

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• The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  3.5 · 52 votes · 75 reads

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• The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.8 · 8 votes · 106 reads

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• The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 64 votes · 126 reads

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• The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 7 votes · 3 reads

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• The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.3 · 21 votes · 124 reads

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• The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.7 · 42 votes · 116 reads

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• The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.1 · 30 votes · 144 reads

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• The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

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  Carl Sandburg

  PoetAmerican1878 · 19th century

  3.9 · 18 votes · 60 reads

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• The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.7 · 40 votes · 170 reads

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• The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

  

  Baltasar Gracián

  WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century

  3.4 · 28 votes · 22 reads

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• The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  3.9 · 39 votes · 87 reads

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• The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  4.5 · 57 votes · 199 reads

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• Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.2 · 51 votes · 151 reads

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• There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.4 · 33 votes · 65 reads

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• There are two kinds of people in the world - those you love, and those you don't understand.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 29 votes · 104 reads

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• There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.

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  H. G. Wells

  AuthorAmerican1866 · 19th century

  4.5 · 27 votes · 134 reads

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• There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.''

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.1 · 7 votes · 62 reads

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• There is a great deal of human nature in people.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.2 · 11 votes · 109 reads

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• There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.2 · 64 votes · 72 reads

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• There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.6 · 28 votes · 146 reads

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• There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things b

  

  Lewis Carroll

  NovelistEnglish1832 · 19th century

  4.8 · 15 votes · 105 reads

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• There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.

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  Niels Bohr

  PhysicistDanish1885 · 19th century

  4.4 · 47 votes · 137 reads

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• There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.5 · 26 votes · 154 reads

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• There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

  

  Teresa of Calcutta

  MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

  3.5 · 41 votes · 63 reads

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• There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.9 · 24 votes · 181 reads

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• Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.5 · 55 votes · 186 reads

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• Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

  

  Henri Bergson

  PhilosopherFrench1859 · 19th century

  4.4 · 54 votes · 147 reads

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• Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.3 · 19 votes · 136 reads

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• This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.1 · 17 votes · 132 reads

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• Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

  

  William Wordsworth

  PoetEnglish1770 · 18th century

  4.6 · 38 votes · 78 reads

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• Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.4 · 31 votes · 197 reads

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• Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.5 · 11 votes · 112 reads

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• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  4.1 · 48 votes · 147 reads

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• To look is one thing, to see what you look at is another, to understand what you see is a third, to learn from what you understand is still something else, but to act on what you learn is all that really matters! How do I act?

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 49 votes · 197 reads

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• To me you cannot be fully human, fully civilised, unless you recognise humanity in everyone.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.3 · 27 votes · 10 reads

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• To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.8 · 25 votes · 176 reads

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• To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  4.2 · 42 votes · 92 reads

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• To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  4.5 · 55 votes · 10 reads

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• Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 15 votes · 71 reads

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• Try and trust will move mountains.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.0 · 22 votes · 168 reads

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