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I thought to myself, beware of those who look like a rose, for even roses have spikes.


Jean Sasson

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Beware of those who are bitter,
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MORENA BACCARIN Stars shine even for those who refuse to look up.
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DWIGHT OELKE We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.
ALPHONSE KARR Beware of those who are bitter, for they will never allow you to enjoy your fruit.
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ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Why am I trying to look for someone when I can't even find myself.
URIEL DOMINGUEZ Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say: / Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?
EDWARD FITZGERALD You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby wo...
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DAN TILLEY I would like to thank those fans who have pledged their support to myself personally and to the club...
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Those Who
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READING
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SAM CHILDERS Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
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LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
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JEAN BAUDRILLARD As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of af...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
JEAN ANOUILH We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasu...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD