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“To live fully, we must learn to use things and love people, and not love things and use people.”

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“Why am I afraid to tell you who I am? I am afraid to tell you who I am, because, if I tell you who I am, you may not like who I am, and it's all that I have…”

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“Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world… We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.”

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Source: Will the Real Me Please Stand Up?: 25 Guidelines for Good Communication

“Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection”

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“We can judge the intent of the parties only by their words.”

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Idle v. Cooke (1704), 2 Raym. 1149.

“Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason.”

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Coggs vs. Bernard, Lord Raymond, 911, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason... The law, which is perfection of reason", Edward Coke, First Institute.