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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#how #i #i think #important #know

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#flowers #garden #grow #i #like

My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#else #had #his #husband #i

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#company #conversation #displaying #drawing #gift

There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part. ↗

— Charles Spalding

#action #ambassador #else #endless #everyone

I am not the best because I said it, I am the best because I live it ↗

— Wogu Donald

#entrepreneurship #inspirational #relationshipstionships #education

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#father #financial #manager #mother #office

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#minority #oppression #race-relations #responsibility #sexual-orientation

A time comes in the life of a man when all you do is reflect on retrospective actions and desire better outcomes in the future ↗

— Wogu Donald

#entrepreneurship #inspirational #relationships #education

Allthough that doesn't happen often lately, I like to read exciting thrillers and those kinky magazines. ↗

— Jonathan Brandis

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