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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#others #self #wasted

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#creature #every #fact #human #mystery

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious. ↗

— Robert Blair

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I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other aspects of my life. ↗

— Selma Blair

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AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#aids #billion #cost #dealing #few

While I support initiatives to improve quality and efficiency in Medicare, I do not believe that these efficiencies should come at the cost of patient well being. ↗

— Shelley Berkley

#believe #come #cost #efficiencies #efficiency

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home. ↗

— Mary Kay Blakely

#deliver #every #every time #expand #god

There are a lot of girls that will try to hook up with you, then try to have your kid because they figure they're going to get all this money from you. ↗

— Dustin Diamond

#figure #get #going #hook #kid

My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother. ↗

— Michael Kors

#me #model #mom #mother #she

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population. ↗

— Jared Diamond

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