"I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent."
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"Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering , 'When do I put my arm around her?'"
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"It used to be that god was revealed in the wonders of nature; now God was being challenged by those same wonders. Scholars were now required to choose one side or the other."
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"With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?"
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"I wonder if I am capable of being somebody’s sun, somebody’s everything. Am I centered enough now to be the center of somebody else’s life?"
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"I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die."
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"I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?"
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"It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion."
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"I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end."
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"Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering."
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"I wonder if, as a society, we will ever be able to call someone a jive tofurkey."
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"No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly."
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"No wonder this circuit failed. It says 'Made in Japan'."
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"I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?"
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"It's reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is "woking."
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"I can't stand VPL, visible panty line. So I'm wondering how many other people out there are wearing thongs."
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"Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here."
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"I wonder if I'm being paranoid. I tell myself I'm not, and then ask myself how I can be so sure? I don't know the answer, so I go back to wondering if I am."
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"I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at."
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"I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get."
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