"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
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"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.“
-Carl Sandburg
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