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• Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination.

  Paul Fussell

  Past, Illumination, Understanding

  Paul Fussell (1990). “Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays”

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• I think my ex-girlfriend has weekly lessons with the devil on how to be more evil. I don't know what she charges him.

  Emo Philips

  Girlfriend, Thinking, Evil

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• All my ex's live in Texas, And Texas is the place I'd dearly love to be, But all my ex's live in Texas, Therefore I reside in Tennessee

  George Strait

  Texas, Tennessee

  Song: All My Ex's Live In Texas

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• I know people my age (early 40s) who insist upon only writing. You know what we call them? Ex-journalists.

  Jeff Pearlman

  Writing, People, Age

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• I assure the ex servicemen that One Rank One Pension has been accepted in principle but it is in talks. We want to get a solution which is acceptable to all. Discussions have come to the final leg, we hope for a positive result.

  Narendra Modi

  Legs, Want, Principles

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• I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Thinking, People

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• One of the reasons my ex-husband and I broke up is that he stopped eating my food.

  Jill Scott

  Husband, Eating, Broke Up

  "Jill Scott: 'In Botswana I ate wopani worms. They were terrible. They crawl and have legs'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2011.

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• One of the most meaningful things that's happened to me since I've been the governor - the president - governor - president. Oops. Ex-governor. I went to Bethesda Naval Hospital to give a fellow a Purple Heart, and at the same moment I watched him-get a Purple Heart for action in Iraq - and at that same - right after I gave him the Purple Heart, he was sworn in as a citizen of the United States - a Mexican citizen, now a United States citizen.

  George W. Bush

  Meaningful, Heart, Purple

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• When I'm ninety-five and it's 'This is Your Life' time, they'll still be referring to me as 'ex-Beatle'...it does have it's advantages. It's still the best way to get a good table at a resturant.

  Ringo Starr

  Doe, Tables, Way

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• I got a divorce because my ex-wife left me for another woman.

  Woody Allen

  Divorce, Wife, Left

  Manhattan, www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• Apparently, there's something hinky about the new iPhones. They're not hooked up right. ... There's a problem with the antenna. They don't like to be held - like my ex-wife.

  David Letterman

  Iphone, Wife, Problem

  "Apple's iPhone briefing is underway" by Doug Gross, www.cnn.com. July 16, 2010.

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• Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Book

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• There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.

  Cyril Connolly

  Women, Wife, Lovers

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• In the divorce my ex got everything. Even kept her composure

  Tom Franklin

  Divorce, Composure

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• Exes should never, never go out with or marry other people but should remain celibate to the end of their days in order to provide you with a mental fallback position.

  Helen Fielding

  Order, People, Ends

  Bridget Jones's Diary "August" (1996)

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• I don't like vampire movies or zombie movies. I went to see 'I Am Legend' with an ex-girlfriend the other day, and I immediately realised it was a zombie movie! You know what I mean? There are certain rules, and those rules are things that you've seen many times.

  Michel Gondry

  Girlfriend, Mean, Zombie

  "Surreal to reel" by Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com.

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• Ten Things You Shouldn't Say on a Date.
  1. You're wearing that?
  2. Something smells funny.
  3. Where's the Tylenol?
  4. And to think, I first wanted to date your brother.
  5. I have a confession to make…
  6. My dad has a suit just like that.
  7. That man is hot. Look at him.
  8. My ex, may he rot in hell forever…
  9. You're going to order that? Seriously?
  10. You're how old?

  Gena Showalter

  Brother, Dad, Men

  Gena Showalter (2007). “Animal Instincts”, p.3, HQN Books

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• Placing "amicable" and "separation" together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Sight, Agony, Together

  "Should I stay friends with my ex?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2013.

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• If a tree falls in the forest and kills your ex-wife, what do you do with the lumber?

  Neil S. Plakcy

  Fall, Divorce, Wife

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• Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, 'Wow, you're still friends with your ex, man? Really? That's weird.' I don't play that.

  Marc Anthony

  New York, Men, Play

  "EXCLUSIVE: Marc Anthony Breaks Silence, Denies Cheating on Jennifer Lopez" by Edward Lovett and John Quinones, abcnews.go.com. September 1, 2011.

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• When you feel in love with an ex, it isn't that you still love him, but that you are simply stuck in the idea of what YOU did wrong.

  Robin Lopez

  Break Up, Breakup, Ideas

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• The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis - the most out of the least.

  Mario Bunge

  Justice, Chaos, Motto

  "The Myth of Simplicity: Problems of Scientific Philosophy". Book by Mario Bunge, 1963.

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• During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, 'There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.'

  Al Franken

  Evil, President, Bob

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• It is easy being a manager when you are one of 25,000 sitting in the stand or if you are an ex-player who is now working for the media who will never manage anything better than an under-10 team, thinking he knows best - and you know what I'm talking about, and I will deal with that, trust me.

  Glenn Roeder

  Nice, Team, Player

  "Neil Adams has precious little time to save Norwich City from relegation" by Jacob Steinberg, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2014.

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• Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).

  Saint Augustine

  Evil, Coping, Difficulty

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