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Quote by Margaret Atwood
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. – Margaret Atwood

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I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one race – the human race – and that we are all members of it. – Margaret Atwood

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So long as we love, we serve so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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