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"Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin."
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"When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it."

"My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them."

"Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising."

"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."

"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."

"Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved."
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"Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it."


"There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and that is what man is, churning and foam together."


"All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river."


"Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark."


"Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall."
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