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Stephen Leacock quote: "Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of..."

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.

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My vision is to have an independent Kosovo, democratic, with a politically tolerant society and with a solid economy, integrated into the EU, the NATO and to continue with our good relations with the USA. Ibrahim Rugova
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