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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That’s how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it.

Andy Rooney

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We’d traveled, we’d been to lots of parties, lots of movies and concerts, we’d slept in. We’d done all those things that people with children seem to miss so passionately. We didn’t want those things anymore. We wanted a baby.

Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot

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In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all.

Abraham Lincoln

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A boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.

Plato

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You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right.

Maya Angelou

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Life, the permission to know death.

Djuna Barnes

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We are not here to advocate abortion. We do not ask this Court to rule that abortion is good or desirable in any particular situation. We are here to advocate that the decision as to whether or not a particular woman will continue to carry or will terminate a pregnancy is a decision that should be made by that individual.

Sarah Weddington, lead prosecuting attorney in Roe v. Wade, 1972

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Religion. It’s given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

Jon Stewart

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The county jail looked like a tall, forbidding elementary school. Seven stories of dirty-brown brick, one hundred years old and now operating at 330 percent of capacity.

Richard Price