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People Always Get What They Ask For; The Only Trouble Is That They Never Know, Until They Get It, What It Actually Is That They Have Asked For.
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People always get what they ask for;
the only trouble is that they never know,
until they get it, what it actually is that they
have asked for.
-- Aldous Huxley
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People seldom know what they want until you give them what they ask for.
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Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
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