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Terry Prachett quote: "I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people..."

I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.

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Warning to the despised.? If you have unmistakably sunk in the estimation of men you should hold on like grim death to decorum in society with others: otherwise you will betray to them that you have sunk in your own estimation too. When a man is cynical in society it is a sign that he treats himself like a dog when he is alone. Friedrich Nietzsche
Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five. Kristen Stewart
George Bernard Shaw quote: "What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."
What you are to do without me I cannot imagine. George Bernard Shaw
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. Ambrose Bierce
Julian Casablancas quote: "Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common..."
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. Julian Casablancas
Anna Chlumsky quote: "I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep...."
I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore. Anna Chlumsky
Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply. Steve Jobs
Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope. Thom Yorke
Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening. Herbert Gold
John Keats quote: "You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the..."
You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest. John Keats
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing. John Henry Newman
Herman Melville quote: "It is not down in any map; true places never are."
It is not down in any map; true places never are. Herman Melville
Dave Barry quote: "He could even think about how fast he was thinking about things."
He could even think about how fast he was thinking about things. Dave Barry
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships…pinched it in to such a little bit of a thing that she could tie it about her granddaughter’s neck tight enough to choke her…She had found a jewel inside herself and she had wanted to walk where people could see her and gleam it around. But she had been set in the market-place to sell. Zora Neale Hurston
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