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Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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BAIT GOAT There is a distance where magnets pull, we feel, having held them back. Likewise there is a distance where words attract. Set one out like a bait goat and wait and seven others will approach. But watch out: roving packs can pull your word away. You find your stake yanked and some rough bunch to thank. ↗

— Kay Ryan

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Don't Spit in the Soup, We All Gotta Eat ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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How do you explain to your friend's mother why a night out with friends has left her daughter dying from an ecstasy overdose? ↗

— A.C. Flanagan

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...People would make the decisions they wished to make and some of them would hurt both themselves and those who loved them, and some would pass unnoticed, while others would bring joy. ↗

— Rachel Joyce

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The way he was talking to me earlier… makes me think he’s starting to feel like God’s the cosmic sadist again and he’s the marionette.” “In other words, God’s just torturing him for the kick?” Thomas sighed and set his mostly untouched plate down. “Something like that.” “That’s not a healthy outlook.” “He doesn’t feel loved right now, so it’s the natural one. ↗

— Jessiqua Wittman

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The real strength of the rose bush is not in the flowers but in the roots and the branches. ↗

— Dorcas Kareithi

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Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us. ↗

— Nina Guilbeau

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Stripe felt frozen. To be so high and not high at all! It only looked good from the bottom. ↗

— Trina Paulus

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We can fly! “We can become butterflies! “There’s nothing at the top and it doesn’t matter!” As he heard his own message he realized how he had misread the instinct to get high. To get to the “top” he must fly, not climb. ↗

— Trina Paulus

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