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Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would create new religions overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead, the stars come out every night and we watch television.
— Paul Hawkens

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If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.
— Dr. Gail Dines

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Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I’m human and stupid, too.
— Justina Chen

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Men are simpler than you imagine, my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.
— Daphne du Maurier

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Women are all that we’re ever gonna know of paradise on earth.
— Albert Camus

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
— Marianna Williamson

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There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?
— Woody Allen

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Sometimes I feel like there are birds flying out of me.
— Jennifer K. Sweeney, from “Fragments for the End of the Year”

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These are the days that must happen to you.
— Walt Whitman

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Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
— Robert Brault