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Women have always had it hard in this country, Laila, but they're probably more free now, under the communists, and have more rights than they've ever had before.

— Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

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A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

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A man who who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

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It always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.

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