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Forget the adage Win/Win and make a commitment to Learn/Learn. ↗

— Ted Rubin author of Return on Relationship

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Forget the adage Win/Win and make a commitment to Learn/Learn. Win/Win is good, but implies an end. Once you win, then what? Learn/Learn creates a paradigm of ongoing value. This creates a Learn/Learn situation. I learn about you and you learn about me. And we learn from each other. ↗

— Ted Rubin author of Return on Relationship

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Pe aceia pe care Dumnezeu i-a unit nici o soacra sa nu-i desparta! ↗

— Erich Segal - Doctorii

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Was she strong enough to allow both of them to be themselves? Bahama had instilled in her an honoring of promises, but she could not keep her promise unless she was willing to allow Nik to be Nik, not a projection of someone who could fill in all her empty spaces, heal all her wounds. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

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Tunnemme toistemme läsnäolon koko ajan, käymme toistemme hermoille - salaa. Käymme toistemme tunteille - varoen. Me painaudumme toisiamme vasten - voimalla. ↗

— Emma Juslin

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If you always say no, you will never say yes ↗

— Dat guy

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You don't see him again. Sometimes you worry that he loved you better than any man ever has or will--even if it had nothing to do with you. Even now, he is every blue blazer getting into a cab, every runner along the river, every motorcycle coming and going. ↗

— Melissa Bank

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Nakajima’s past would always be there, so the foundation could crumble at any moment. That’s what happens, I realized, when people destroy other people. ↗

— Banana Yoshimoto

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Somewhere underneath it all, I know he doesn't deserve to take up space in my brain. ↗

— Susane Colasanti

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I don't know what to say to fill the silence. I don't know how to fix this. It seems wrong to leave him, but I have to. There's no compromise, no alternative. Things just weren't meant to be, which seems like a pansy-ass thing to say, until it happens to you. ↗

— H.M. Ward

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