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• death
• humanity
• guess

Death looms large I guess because it should. It’s the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It’s the only thing we’ve really got, and I don’t mean to sound bleak about this, but it’s a unifying factor amongst us all. Nick Cave

• life
• people
• strange

Isn't life strange? There are people who have so many leftover clothes they can't stuff them all in their wardrobe. And then there are people like me, whose socks never match. Haruki Murakami

• god
• paying
• takes

What will you have? quoth God; pay for it, and take it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• smoking
• manly
• thinking

You'd think the man could have called her once, she thought, scowling at her boots. Sent a telegram, a damn smoke signal. Nora Roberts

• men
• lost
• town

Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find oneanother, have lost themselves. E. M. Forster

• men
• done
• needed

I'm done with men. I have a hamster. That's all I need. Janet Evanovich

• change
• boys
• memories

I remember how, as a boy, I used to collect the cork tips of my father's cigarettes and stick them in my stamp albums. I believed they contained his unspoken words, which one day would explain everything. I have not changed. Now I explore my memories, trying to discover the substructure hidden beneath my past actions, searching for the link to connect them all. Jerzy Kosinski

• war
• choices
• wars

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war. Winston Churchill

• brainly
• thinking
• brain

Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about. Neal Stephenson

• book
• writing
• giving

I do not use my intellect to write my stories and books; I have a gut reaction to the things that my subconscious gives me. Ray Bradbury

• true
• time love
• self

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values. It is peace because we have found peace in the Savior’s teachings. It is the time we realize most deeply that the more love is expended, the more there is of it for others. Thomas S. Monson

• enough is enough
• enough
• you me

There is no need," Capricorn finally began, raising his voice, "for me to explain to most of you why the three prisoners you see there are to be punished. For the rest, it is enough for me to say it is for treachery, loose talk, and stupidity. One may argue, of course, over whether or not stupidity is a crime deserving of death. I think it is, for it can have exactly the same consequences as treachery. Cornelia Funke

• children
• brings
• got

! ” ( ) Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. John Wilmot

• parents
• girlfriend
• easier

It's easier to have parents if you've got a girlfriend. Nick Hornby

• met
• expansion
• selection

If you don't have a catcher, the ball goes to the backstop. Casey Stengel explaining why the Mets selected mediocre catcher Hobie Landrith first in the expansion draft. Casey Stengel