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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
Relationship

"No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this."

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Emile Zola Novelist
Relationship

"They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other."

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
Relationship

"I remember when my schedule was as flexible as she is.. She call and tell me 'be here before the sun up', I be dressed before we hung up"

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Relationship

"At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument."

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Gunter Pauli Entrepreneur
Relationship

"We are reducing the number of relationships. We are slowly but surely consuming the massive reserves of energy that have been accumulating and are stored in the ecosystems."

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