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Rex Stout quote: "MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it."

MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.

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Well, said Marilla, unable to find an excuse for deffering her explanation longer, "I suppose I might as well tell you. Matthew and I have decided to keep you- that is, if you try to be a good little girl and show yourself grateful. Why, child whatever is the matter?" "I'm crying," said Anne in a tone of bewilderment. "I can't think why. I'm as glad as can be. L. M. Montgomery
David Arquette quote: "I'm not one to run around with different girls. I like someone..."
I'm not one to run around with different girls. I like someone that makes me feel good and that I can make feel good. David Arquette
William Penn quote: "Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art..."
Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free. William Penn
It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity. Ferdinand Christian Baur
If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is not possible because we are all “on our own journey,” then moral assessment becomes completely impossible or is speciesist. It is impossible because if we are all “on our own journey,” then there is nothing to say to the racist, sexist, anti-semite, homophobe, etc. If we say that those forms of discrimination are morally bad, but, with respect to animals, we are all “on our own journey” and we... Gary L. Francione
Adam Jones quote: "I'm not a good guitar player."
I'm not a good guitar player. Adam Jones
I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach. Len Wein
No, I think I used to be pretty superstitious about certain things, but I'm really not anymore. As long as I have everything is in order and I have my things as far as the match goes, shooting I'm fine. But I really don't. Nancy Johnson
Samuel Beckett quote: "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness."
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness. Samuel Beckett
Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit. Christopher Meloni
No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that ‘a gentleman does not cheat’, than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers. C. S. Lewis
Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob. Aldous Huxley
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. Theodor Adorno
Judi Dench quote: "The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came..."
The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater. Judi Dench
Tim Scott quote: "There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy..."
There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and that makes the difference. Tim Scott