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You don't understand how much light you have until the lights go out.

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If you worry about every little thing you're going to have one thoroughly miserable life.
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He stood up, put the tree back under the grow light. 'There. That's what's going to happen to us. It's called grafting. Taking something from one place and fixing it to another until they grow together. We didn't start from the same tree, but we're going to grow together like we did.
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Will we have bodyguards? We're not quite set up for that. But with all these mothers, you don't need them.
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People are so cheap. Everyone wants quality, no one wants to pay for it. Here's the suburban dream-- to hire great workers who are such meek morons that they don't have the guts to ask for a living wage.
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You don't know which way a thing will come at you, but you need to welcome it with your whole heart which ever way it arrives.
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