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> [“love was an unstable reaction with a half-life of about eight months. Bullshit, I said, and accused him of wearing cultural blinders;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-haldeman/love-was-an-unstable-reaction-with-a-half-life-of-about-eight-months/)

[Joe Haldeman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-haldeman/)

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> [For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hippolyte-taine/for-thirty-centuries-from-her-sacred-seat-the-cat-looked-down-and/)

[Hippolyte Taine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hippolyte-taine/)

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> [Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benito-mussolini/thirty-centuries-of-history-allow-us-to-look-with-supreme-pity-on/)

[Benito Mussolini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benito-mussolini/)

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