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David Foster Wallace quote: "They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite..."

They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier.

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Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over. Jose Saramago
But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities. Muhammad Yunus
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I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to G-d for this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me. I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear; my courage is reborn. But, and that is the great question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer? Anne Frank
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