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March 16th, 2014

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A medical hug for everyone ;)

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"Hugs keep us all alive"

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Quotes of the day

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I know the true world, and you know I do. But we needn't let it think we all bow down. - Christopher Morley, The Dark is Light Enough

"I don't care what people do, as long as they don't do it in the middle of the street and scare the horses!"
(only applied to certain situations, of course)

On arguments in society meetings:

"Her own contribution to getting everyone home is to tell well-meaning people who keep vehemently restating their views what her own mamma used to say to dear Uncle Henry when he did that.

'The trouble with our discussions,' dear Mamma would say, 'is that you think that if I disagree with you, it must be because I don't understand your position.' "

(all three from/via "Miss Manners' guide for the turn-of-the-millennium: Explicit, practical, and entertaining advice on social, business, and personal etiquette" [2000])
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How history repeats itself, and how life imitates art...

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Я говорил ему тысячу раз: "Вы программируете стандартного суперэгоцентриста. Он загребет все материальные ценности, до которых сможет дотянуться, а потом свернет пространство, закуклится и остановит время".
....

"Зеф ворчал, зевал, чесался, перематывал портянки, обзывался, но понукаемый, взбадриваемый и подхлестываемый, в конце концов разговорился и изложил свои представления о причинах войны.

Таких возможных причин было, по его мнению, по крайней мере три. Может быть, они действовали все разом, а может быть преобладала какая-нибудь одна. А может быть, существовала четвертая, которая ему, Зефу, пока еще не пришла в голову.

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