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<|endoftext|>funny: Did I ever tell you the difference between a Northern fairy tale and a Southern one?"she asked him, indulging herself and letting her head rest on his shoulder. God, he felt good. Her man. Where her head was meant to lie, right there, on him. "What's the difference?""A Northern one starts 'once upon a time,' while a Southern one starts 'y'all ain't going to believe this shit.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: I was wasting my time, praying for love.For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can't see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of seventy-five dollars per hour for it, without necessarily fixing anything.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>education: Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>soul: Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Some ghosts or felt presences may simply be the essence of another living person projected outward while sleeping.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be?<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: ... human beings fear the unknown. So, whatever's freaking you out, grab it by the balls and say hello.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: My grandfather says that's what books are for,"Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Love is a serious mental disease.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: Something amazing happens when you're in love and don't give a damn about what day it is anymore.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>death: I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: When gangs took over the [abandoned public land in Philadelphia] and the neighborhood took a turn for the worse, horses became a way of saving lives. By getting boys interested in raising a horse rather than killing another human being, these cowboys gave the youth something positive: father figures, focus, and the ability to stand tall.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: Make rules and follow rules as needed, but don't focus on riles. Focus on faith. Focus on grace. Focus on Jesus.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>romance: If you were mine, I'd never leave you, Prudence. I couldn't.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do forlove.Myrnin.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>education: We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that's the way of it<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: You teach people how to treat you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>mind: The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>wisdom: We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>truth: Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>quotes: I want to be born and reborn as a cherry tree so that I may beautify this world with my blossoms, feed everyone with my nectar of love fruits, and purify the air with my calmly dancing leaves.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: [I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>quotes: When we become conscious of love, our hearts dance with joy.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>death: I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>knowledge: It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>positive: The more you go with the flow of life and surrender the outcome to God, and the less you seek constant clarity, the more you will find that fabulous things start to show up in your life.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>relationship: When traveling on foot through the Sahara Desert, be sure to pack several gallons of ice cream, and keep them close to your heart, because nothing, not even my love, can make that thing melt.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: If you see me pushing a wheelbarrow full of animal balloons up a hill, it may be a Zen koan, or it may be buy two get a third for FREE.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>death: Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: May be its mine bad-luck Or yours not to get me But I still have hope Of being yours<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: SHINE JESUS - I have found, the more we point others to Jesus... the more His radiance shines through us. "Those who are wise will shine like the brightest of heavens, and those who turn many to righteousness will shine like stars forever and ever."Daniel 12:3<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>happiness: The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>books: Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: I need to be gentler, I said definitively to myself, as I clenched my fist and shook it in the air. Love takes flight like two powerful wings, but hits like a collection of feathers.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>education: For success, attitude is often more important than education.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: I was a timid little guy when I was a kid. I used humor as a defense; I became the class clown. But deep inside, I felt real vulnerable.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>science: The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>writing: When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>quotes: With every sunrise, our hearts sing with joy, our minds dance with love, and our lives get energized with new life.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>education: You are educated. Yourcertification is in yourdegree. You may think ofit as the ticket to the goodlife. Let me ask you to think of analternative. Think of it as yourticket to change the world.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: I don't think ethical people deal with intimidation as a method to achieve success. Undermining someone's self-esteem isn't a method to achieve success.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>soul: There is more to a soul than what others see<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: The wind is my favorite color. It reminds me of the love she painted on my life as she blew past me.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>inspiration: Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>god: God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>faith: Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: Worship is the marriage of two Spirits - the Spirit of God and the Spirit of man.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>relationship: To save face, it's better not to ask sex from the ex, but to give everything the axe.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>relationship: I lost interest in her because she said the wrong thing. She said nothing.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>knowledge: Mind of a loving heart is the fountain of knowledge.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>religion: Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>poetry: Fly without wings; Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>philosophy: We hold the future still timidly, but perceive it for the first time as a function of our own action.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>success: Cosmic Ordering is an ever full piggy bank.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>god: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!"he annouced.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>life: To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: The restless spirit never loses its wings. If sometimes it cannot fly, it is because during those moments the sky vanishes.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: You're such a pain in the ass. (Butch) Said the SIG to the Glock. (V)<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>god: Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>purpose: Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>romance: Women were supposed to be the enigmas, but men? Moody, brooding bastards, the lot of them. A woman with PMS had nothing on a man. Where women might get hormonal once a month, men suffered their own brand of PMS on a daily basis. - Faith<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: Man, I'm 31 years old and a husband with four kids; I hope I'm no thug. I hear all those negative things and don't hear anything positive. I think that's all those people feel... that way that's all they hear about when you hear Allen Iverson did something negative or something.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>humor: Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so that when she shows up, you have the maximum chance of catching her, bashing her on the head, and squeezing every last drop out of that bitch.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>arts: I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>love: You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.<|endoftext|>
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<|endoftext|>hope: I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.<|endoftext|>