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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

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Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "There's no defense against stupidity."
There's no defense against stupidity. Friedrich Nietzsche
Because you are never herebut always there, I forgetnot you but what you look like. You drift down the streetin the rain, your facedissolving, changing shape, the coloursrunning together. My walls absorbyou, breathe you forthagain, you resumeyourself, I do not recognize you. You rest on the bedwatching me watchingyou, we will never knoweach other any betterthan we do now Margaret Atwood
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Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance. Robert Quillen
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Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile. Adam Oates
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