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<|endoftext|>books: But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: The people I mixed with in Monaco didn't relate to my South African mentality or humor... Although I have met some wonderful people since I've been living in Monaco, I regard them all as acquaintances. I only have two people I consider friends here.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: sometimes i don't know, which momentwhich cool gust of wind will come,and enchant metousling my hairand my heart, stirring...that familiar ache of poetry, which drop will kissthe old wrench in my soulreminding me, all over againi miss you better in the rain.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: Human beings are incredibly slow, Cosmic Ordering is incredibly fast!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: I was just shy of reaching my goal. My goal was to be more extroverted, so being just shy meant I completely failed.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Charlie whistled "Amazing Grace"as he drove. It was all I could do not to whip my head around and snap, Are you kidding me? Couldn't he pick something more appropriate, like "Shout at the Devil"or "Don't fear the Reaper"? Some people had no sense of the proper music for a kidnapping.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: down with hell and heaven and all the religious fussinfinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: You are my whole heart, Scarlet. And this is breaking it.'My heart cracked open and clear dropped out of me. My mouth opened, and I looked round me and stamped my foot. 'Does this look like a good time to tell me that, you damn stupid boy?' I meant to sound mean but my voice wobbled. 'Now?'He gave a little smile. 'My foul-mouthed warrior.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: Ideas are the source of all things<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Love is the essence, fragrance, and beauty of life.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: There's no greater show on earth than observing human nature<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Art is the proper task of life.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>purpose: Opportunity Knocks: China When opportunity knocksthe Chinese make knock-offs.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>mind: It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>mind: The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.)<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>happiness: Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>soul: A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>positive: I will always find a way and a way will always find me.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Love gives you wings. Icarus and the Challenger both had wings, and so did my first love letter, after I folded it up and flung it at my crush.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>education: Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Tennis is the only sport with love in the score, and that makes it the most romantic. I would be a player, but I wisely use the net to go fishing instead.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: You'll never reach perfection because there's always room for improvement. Yet get along the way to perfection, you'll learn to get better.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>quotes: First I dream my life. Then I live in that dream with love and joy.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: I love you, in my mind where my thoughts reside, in my heart where my emotions live, and in my soul where my dreams are born. I love you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: A teacher will be frustrated if she is only motivated to teach what she has learned. Yet, if she is motivated because of the students, then she will learn from them how to teach.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: I will tell you why I became a philosopher. I became a philosopher because I wanted to be able to talk about many, many things, ideally with knowledge, but sometimes not quite the amount of knowledge that I would need if I were to be a specialist in them. It allows you to be many different things. And plurality and complexity are very, very important to me.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Man made God in his own image...<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>religion: As a child abuse and neglect therapist I do battle daily with Christians enamored of the Old Testament phrase "Spare the rod and spoil the child."No matter how far I stretch my imagination, it does not stretch far enough to include the image of a cool dude like Jesus taking a rod to a kid.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: If only the scientific experts could come up with something to get it out of our minds. One cup of fixit fizzle that will lift the dirt from our lives, soften our hardness, protect our inner parts, improve our processing, reduce our yellowing and wrinkling, improve our natural color, and make us sweet and good.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>positive: Finally, I Know Who I Am You are what you eat.~ Ludwig Andreas FeuerbachWe become what we think about.~ Earl NightingaleI'm a Horny Pizza!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>knowledge: Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: My sun sets to rise again.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Persistence If persistence is the foundation of all success, how come persistent liars and nags aren't more successful?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>quotes: When superstitions infect you, it controls your mind.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: It ain't no broken.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: NO PDA,school rules. And besides she's my partner dickhead."said Alex.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Exactly!"said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: The unexamined life is not worth living.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: Interviewer: Didn't Sagan want to believe?Druyan: he didn't want to believe. he wanted to know.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: I find people with depression are like a broken clocks, and clock maker after clock maker will try to fix you, but sometimes time itself is the answer.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>quotes: All of the stories, all of the beauty, all of the songs and events of this life will vanish in the ocean of time.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>god: I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Never say 'I can't.' 'I can't' is a limit, and life is about breaking through limits. Say 'I will' instead.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>religion: Some folks are happier not being saved.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Love for yourself is the key to loving other. Love begins with you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: [Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>god: A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: She comforted him in his darkness and gave him hope. She seemed to cherish a sincere affection for him, despite his failings. 'She saved me'.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>positive: Your past karma is what you found difficult or challenging in this life. To heal your past karma you would need to learn your life lessons for this life.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>relationship: Hearts set about finding other hearts the moment they are born, and between them, they weave nets so frightfully strong and tight that you end up bound forever in hopeless knots, even to the shadow of a beast you knew and loved long ago.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: Without hope we are lost.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>religion: The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Life: It is better not to wrap philosophy around such an inconceivable evolving beautiful mystery. If based on perception, alone; whatever the conclusion - it is still guessing.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Wishes are possibilities. Dare to make a wish.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>death: Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: You know, we can quote the written Word all day to our friends, but nothing will touch them like our own hunger and love for the Word himself. It is not dutiful love that attracts but love freely lavished from a heart familiar with the gardens of heaven.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>education: Who said to kill does not require gentleness?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Why, when we know that there's no such thing as perfect, do most of us spend an incredible amount of time and energy trying to be everything to everyone? Is it that we really admire perfection? No - the truth is that we are actually drawn to people who are real and down-to-earth. We love authenticity and we know that life is messy and imperfect.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>quotes: I am in love when I feel that my soul belongs to the universe.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Curiosity is the single most important attribute with which humans are born. More than a simple desire to discover or know things, curiosity is a powerful tool, like a scalpel or a searchlight. Curiosity changes us. It is also a way to effect change, perhaps even on a global level.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.<|endoftext|>