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Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience. ↗

— Paul Getty

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Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#became #comfortable #did #each #else

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

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I'll get up in the morning while they've all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and they're really obsessed about running. That's all they do. They're really boring. ↗

— Trisha Goddard

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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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