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“Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.”
Source : Aaron Sorkin's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012. 
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“No man has ever loved a woman as much as I love you. Nothing will ever come before you. I don’t know what else I have to do to prove to you that I won’t let you down again. I won’t hurt you. You don’t have to be alone anymore. I need you.”
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“I can't do this Ash. It's killing me. Having you this close and not touching you is driving me insane. You're his Ash. You're his. You made your choice and I understand why you chose him. I don't hold it against you but dammit Ash it hurts”
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“He closed his eyes and let out a jagged breath. "Okay." He settled between my legs holding himself over me. "I've never been with a virgin, Eva. I'm going to try real hard not to hurt you." "Will it hurt you?" I asked, thinking about his pained expression when he'd said I was too tight. He smiled, "It's going to be the closest to heaven I'll ever get, baby.”
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“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”
Source : Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 3 Nov. 1831) See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Thoreau 16
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“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”
Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
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“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”
Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
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“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”
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“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”
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“Write every day. Writing is a muscle that gets stronger with use.”
