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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#opportunity #talk #well #whenever #you

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

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It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots. ↗

— Virgil Goode

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I say Democrats should not be afraid to talk about the morality of life, of caring for children who are born. It seems the Republican obsession with being pro-life lasts about nine months. After that, it's each baby for herself. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#afraid #after #baby #being #born

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

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I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

#cleanliness #get #house #i #obsessed

But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

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I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children. ↗

— Daniel Greenberg

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The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. ↗

— Graham Greene

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