You're right, a spleen is a strange thing-we technically don't need one, but maybe spleens are kept in our bodies in case we mutate or evolve, and if we grow wings or tentacles we need to have the spleen in place in order for them to work.

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So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
CHARLES M. BLOW

The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea...
PHILIP T.M We should celebrate how amazing our bodies are! We all have things that we like and dislike about ou...
KATHERINE SCHWARZENEGGER We need a shift in our message and in our pulpit
SUNDAY ADELAJA Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer.
AKIROQ BROST The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL You have got the right strategy, the right geography; you have got the right customers. You need to ...
AZIM PREMJI The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
...

That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL The fact that the child was still in the hospital with a ruptured spleen warranting emergency surger...
MIKE HANSON I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The farmer in us makes us do the things we do
SOTONYE ANGA Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER When someone says we need to talk, what he or she usually means is you will listen. An...
JAMES ANDERSON A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.
ALBERT EINSTEIN I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black American...
AUGUST WILSON A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON It turns out that the very genes that turn on in cancer cells perform vital functions in normal cell...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE In order for us to grow we have to get our feet wet. If God put all the answers in front of us, we w...
LINDSEY RIETZSCH We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them...
H.G. WELLS What will happen if we go to 0 day?
...

Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to...
CRAIG GROESCHEL There is a plan B in place in case we need it.
GEORGES GOVEN The creed of greed:

Great Revenue Every Everlasting Day.

(IN BANKS WE TRUST)
ANTHONY T. HINCKS There is a farmer in every person. It is the farmer in you that makes you sow and reap
SOTONYE ANGA We are going to have to work with people, ... We are going to be telling them they need to move or b...
BARRY ARNOLD We don't need to be constantly reasonable in order to have good relationships; all we need to have m...
ALAIN DE BOTTON Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a ...
STEVE JOBS We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
MAX DE PREE I am confident about the next election. We have our candidates in place, we have our financing in pl...
STEPHEN HARPER We are going to need a new concept in order to pay for all the roads we will need.
BEN JORDAN Kurdish politicians have no present intentions to gain independence. But we need self-determination ...
MULLAH BAKHTIYAR Life, its so great, but when we act like shit and do shit, then it aint. Why should we act like that...
TUPAC SHAKUR We need to evolve our work force development programs in the Richmond region into one that can quick...
GARY RHODES Once they come in put these utilities in that will just be a sign that will allow other developers t...
CHARLIE COX A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here?
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Communication. It's the first thing we really learn in life. Funny thing is, once we grow up, learn ...
MEREDITH GREY We often forget that we are as we are until we're not. We are the same until we're changed. We can m...
JAMIE VARON It's very slim. It can come down to one or two possessions or maybe even a couple of seconds. You ju...
ZABIAN DOWDELL It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is rig...
GORDON ATKINSON Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we...
DEYTH BANGER A new gender gap has emerged in technology and this is disturbing and disheartening. If our nation i...
CONNIE MORELLA Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba...
DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer...
...

Silence doesn't make it... bet...
DEYTH BANGER What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar...
T.J. KLUNE Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO We have some younger girls in our lineup right now. They need to learn to be more aggressive at the ...
LES OLSON Do we work for and pay for all this convenience in order to live our lives, or do we live our lives ...
COLIN BEAVAN The chakras in your body are as to galaxies on the body of God.
L.J. VANIER The first questions to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thoug...
ALDOUS HUXLEY We are at the beginning of the road. In order to grow we need to change the way we approach the way ...
LAWRENCE BYRD We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The U.S. should print on its money, "In Guns We Trust" and use pictures of aircraft carriers, F-16 a...
BOBBY W. MILLER We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, ...
S. TRUETT CATHY We have a really close-knit group this year who play hard for the program and each other. It's hard ...
DONNA MARTIN If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, ...
RUTH HUBBARD It's one thing to write [these plans] out, but it's another thing to actually perform them, because ...
IGNATIUS CARROLL We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where ...
JOHN O'DONOHUE If we will imagine the thing we want and do our part to “be in the right place at the right time,�...
DANIEL WILLEY We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.
ANDREW PYPER The compromise we made with the AA this time was a fair one. It is a privilege for us to use these c...
DAVID ANDERSEN I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES Sometimes we have to put our foot down, ... but before we deliberately make children unhappy in orde...
ALFIE KOHN We need to make sure our officers are covered in case of a (liability),
BOB DAVIS In the cold light of day we need to see how we played technically and tactically, this is going to b...
CLIVE WOODWARD When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Since we do charge for our work, we do need the permit and licenses, but do it not so much for incom...
BOB SOWDERS If we have need of a strong will in order to do good, it is still more necessary for us in order not...
MOLE Ideas need nurturing in order for them to grow.
STEVEN REDHEAD We have world-class facilities in Davis, ... We have a good place for our kids to go to school. We n...
BRUCE WILLIAMS I think the reason our mission work has grown is because of the 'prayer principle.' If we think we s...
BILL CAMP Sometimes, people don’t need our homes to live in or our bodies to lean on. All they need are our ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.
JOHN IRVING The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We all wish something or other in our life in our own way, but God have other plans and they are bes...
PRAVIN AGARWAL We need to come up with use cases for this technology that drive clear benefits for individuals and ...
ABIGAIL JOHNSON We're leading in several categories but one thing is sure, we want to be the leading sports brand an...
ERICH STAMMINGER We must take on the work that others have left for us. In our own way and space, we need to take res...
BLANCHE HUGHES

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DOUGLAS COUPLAND

You're right, a spleen is a strange thing-we technically don't need one, but maybe spleens are kept in our bodies in case we mutate or evolve, and if we grow wings or tentacles we need to have the spleen in place in order for them to work.

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You're right, a spleen is a strange thing-we technically don't need one, but maybe spleens are kept in our bodies in case we mutate or evolve, and if we grow wings or tentacles we need to have the spleen in place in order for them to work.

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