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...and motioned me toward a spot next to a middle-aged Moroi in a very formal and very designer black suit. The suit… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
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I'm a middle-bracket person with a middle-bracket spouse / And we live together gaily in a middle-bracket house. / We've a fair-to-middlin'… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
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An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty.… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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God told me to smite Osama bin Laden, so I invaded Afghanistan. Then He told me to smite Saddam Hussein, so I… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image