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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory chil

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. – George Santayana

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Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different. – George Santayana

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Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. – Nelson Mandela

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No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isnt yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words. – Roddy Doyle

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Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself. – Thomas Jefferson

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We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we cant come up with real lasting solutions! – Margaret J. Wheatley

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