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My abiding theme is separations. ↗

— Judith Rossner

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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. ↗

— Leo Rosten

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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary. ↗

— Ed Royce

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The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train. ↗

— David Lee Roth

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Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when. ↗

— Philip Roth

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We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person. ↗

— Nelly Sachs

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There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people. ↗

— Anwar Sadat

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It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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