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I love you with an awful intensity. Sometimes when I just sit in a trance staring at a piece of paper, pen poised and immovable, longing for you and remembering you and imagining you. I love you horribly and beautifully. ↗

— Marlene Wagman-Geller

#beauty

Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon. ↗

— Steven Brust

#dragon #enraged #politely #speak

If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow. ↗

— John Bruton

#else #eu #everyone #financial #financial markets

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#all things #avoid #beyond #conscience #dissipate

Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise. ↗

— Kobe Bryant

#me #negative #opportunity #pressure #rise

People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the band's existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. I'm sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#band #black #existence #flag #gigs

...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work. ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#experience #maturity #perspective #experience

The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations. ↗

— John Bruton

#case #combating #crime #develop #eu

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#good #good mind #mediocre #mind #reasonably

Positive anything is better than negative nothing. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#anything #better #negative #nothing #than