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Christopher Hitchens quote: "The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and..."

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Earlier in my life I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house, your wealth, your property, your office. But as I've grown older I've become convinced that the things that matter most are the things that you can't see -- the love you share with others, your inner purpose, your comfort with who you are. Jimmy Carter
No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not. Oscar Wilde
Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere. Karel Capek
Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why peole feel they should?"It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed. Mitch Albom
Karl Kraus quote: "To be perfect, one lacks only a defect."
To be perfect, one lacks only a defect. Karl Kraus
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmn, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing. C. S. Lewis
You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best. Ben Nicholson
James Weldon Johnson quote: "I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into..."
I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely. James Weldon Johnson
I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness. Franka Potente
Paul Putner quote: "I liked playing Morph in Mash and Peas and doing Phil Daniels..."
I liked playing Morph in Mash and Peas and doing Phil Daniels in the Blur Rock Profile was a giggle too. Paul Putner
Voltaire quote: "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. Voltaire
Stanislaw Lec quote: "Even the voice of conscience undergoes mutation."
Even the voice of conscience undergoes mutation. Stanislaw Lec
Judy Garland quote: "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a..."
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. Judy Garland
She was an extraordinary person too! Would you believe it, she cut her hair short, and used to go about in men’s boots in bad weather Henrik Ibsen
Thomas Jefferson quote: "Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold."
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. Thomas Jefferson