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The Lord only knows how many times I let my children go hungry rather than take secretly the bread I liked not to ask for.

Sojourner Truth

American Activist

Born: 1797

Died: Nov 26, 1883

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Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship. Helen Fisher

I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible. Josh Zuckerman

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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. John Maynard Keynes

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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Thomas Carlyle

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Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken. Jack Kerouac

Become Secretly Immediately Course Offer Want Them

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. Fulton J. Sheen

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I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building. Edward Snowden

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I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next. A. A. Milne

Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility. Anne Lamott

Family People World Responsibility First Own Believe Other Secretly My Own Devices Mess Left Really Inclination Whole Lives

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you? Charlotte Gainsbourg

Love You Girl Think Secretly Degrading Like Know Being Being A Girl

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