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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
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"There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!"

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Lil B Rapper
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"Don’t let people’s stereotypes or stigmas or words—don’t let that put you in a box. Don’t let that ruin your day."

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"The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure."

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