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<span class="mw-page-title-main">I Don't Want to Miss a Thing</span> 1998 single by Aerosmith

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Right Thing to Do</span> 1973 single by Carly Simon

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What does not kill me makes me stronger is part of aphorism number 8 from the "Maxims and Arrows" section of Friedrich Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols (1888).