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I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have neve

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person. – Martha Gellhorn

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Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? Its great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but Im not complaining,… Those who find growing old terrible are people who havent done what they wanted with their lives. – Martha Gellhorn

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Age
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And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish. – Martha Gellhorn

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Food
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Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit. – Martha Gellhorn

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To perceive means to immobilize… we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. – Henri Bergson

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Maybe it – M. C. (Maurits Cornelis) Escher

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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright. – Walter Benjamin

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Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak. – Anon.

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It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task. – Robert Kennedy

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The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed. – John Sununu

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My purpose… to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy. – Juliette Gordon Low

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War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. – George Washington

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