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- No-one can stop us having our own thoughts.
- We can with complete impunity fantasise about the people we can’t have.
- We can get to hear the jokes and stories of the funniest people on the planet.
- In the middle of the night, and in the early morning, we have the world to ourselves.
- It isn’t what happened to us that counts; but how we choose to tell the story.
- We do not know what will happen in the future.
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