I’m afraid even ImpSec has no explanation for women’s tastes in men.
– Lois McMaster Bujold
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- Every single phenomenon in the world, has a physical explanation underneath it. Finding the explanation depends on how far you are willing to go. – Abhijit Naskar
- If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation. – Haruki Murakami
- The mouth tastes food, the heart tastes words. – Hmong Proverb
- Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. – Margaret Atwood
- Don’t be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid. – Ray Bradbury
- I’m afraid of failing. I’m afraid of letting this opportunity pass us by. And I’m afraid of what happens if nothing in this world ever changes. – Victoria Aveyard
- We don’t have to be afraid of stepping out. We don’t have to be afraid of failing. We only have to be afraid of not trusting God. – Jennifer L Lane
- I am not afraid of anything in the world. But I’m afraid of myself, afraid of what I will be in the future. – Luffina Lourduraj
- We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato
- Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly – Sally Kempton
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- The smart employer looks not for perfection but for an explanation of how the consequences of a dishonorable act affected the candidate and others. – Bruce Weinstein
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