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Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.

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Deluded or not, it's still a lucky way to live. Even though it's temporary. It may well be that the lower-ranked little kids at E.T.A. are proportionally happier than the higher-ranked kids, since we (who are mostly not small children) know it's more invigorating to want than to have, it seems. Though maybe this is just the inverse of the same delusion. David Foster Wallace
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Saul Alinsky quote: "History is a relay of revolutions."
History is a relay of revolutions. Saul Alinsky
When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me. Shane West
Abraham Lincoln quote: "If we could first know where we are, and whither we are..."
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. Abraham Lincoln
There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive foraction or change. Peter Ackroyd
Sarah Vowell quote: "My audience is going to die before I do."
My audience is going to die before I do. Sarah Vowell
I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East. Mehmet Oz
Victor Hugo quote: "When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is..."
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. Victor Hugo
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business. Malcolm Forbes
Harold Pinter quote: "There are some things one remembers even though they may never..."
There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened. Harold Pinter
W. Mark Felt quote: "I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat."
I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat. W. Mark Felt
The wife whose sweetly given reply in the face of any problem would be, "Whatever you think is best, dear." Women, take note: a wife like that never needs to fear bubbling away the last of her life through a cut throat. Stephen King
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I was very poor. As a child my dream was to have a leather football. Stephen Chow
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Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo. H. Rider Haggard