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Because Quotes (page 340)

I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there. Isaac Asimov
The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own, through their no doubt lavish spending, upon those who stand below them on the economic ladder. Notice that the metaphor is not that of a gushing waterfall but of a leaking tap: even the most optimistic endorsers of this concept do not picture very much real flow, as their language reveals" pg. 102. Margaret Atwood
The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors. Chuck Palahniuk
Going out? Are you going out? He's not going out? What do you mean he's not going out? Are you out here because you're still mad that they moved the Dodgers to L.A.? Are you going out or not? You're not going out? I guess you're not going out? huh? You mean go out parking in the evenings? Are you going out to park? Mr. Tepper, he asked at one point, did you ever? if you were in the middle of an interesting story in the paper or perhaps an interesting conversation with somebody who dropped in... Calvin Trillin
I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't know all that much. Sam Keen
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations;... Winston Churchill
Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?... It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doers to light... My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt. Anna Sewell
The idealist withdrew himself, because he could not suffer the jostling of the human crowd; he had not the strength to fight and so called the battle vulgar; he was vain, and since his fellows would not take him at his own estimate, consoled himself with despising his fellows. W. Somerset Maugham
I remember a little later wondering why things always turn out to be diametrically opposed to what you expect them to be. It's no good even trying to predict what this opposite will be because it always fools you and turns out to be the opposite of that, if you see what I mean. If you think this is geometrically impossible all I can say is that you don't know my life Elaine Dundy
V. S. Pritchett quote: "The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are..."
The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life. V. S. Pritchett
Hannah Arendt quote: "Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because..."
Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves. Hannah Arendt
John Bunyan quote: "It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will..."
It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there. John Bunyan
Terry Prachett quote: "Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous."
Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous. Terry Prachett
I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect. Alice Hoffman
Milton Berle quote: "Jews don't drink much because it interferes with their suffering."
Jews don't drink much because it interferes with their suffering. Milton Berle

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