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People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak. Fannie Flagg
She shut her eyes: the sweet word "promiscuity" came to her mind and suffused her; she enunciated silently to herself: "promiscuity of ideas." How could such contradictory attitudes follow after one another in a single head like two mistresses in the same bed? In the past that nearly infuriated her, but today it entrances her: for she knows that the contract between what Leroy used to say and what he's professing today doesn't matter in the slightest. Because one idea is as good as another.... Milan Kundera
The big companies are like steel and activists are like heat. Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into pretty grillwork and make reforms. Temple Grandin
Alice Walker quote: "I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each..."
I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk. Alice Walker
Perhaps,' Taran said quietly, watching the moon-white riverbank slip past them, 'perhaps you have the truth of it. At first I felt as you did. Then I remember thinking of Eilonwy, only of her; and the bauble showed its light. Prince Rhun was ready to lay down his life; his thoughts were for our safety, not at all for his own. And because he offered the greatest sacrifice, the bauble glowed brightest for him. Can that be its secret? To think more for others than ourselves?' That would... Lloyd Alexander
What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts. Arthur Conan Doyle
It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again. Charles de Lint
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood; and if there is any truth in him, if he rests at last on the divine soul, I see not how it can be otherwise. The last chamber, the last closet, he must feel, was never opened; there is always a residuum unknown, unanalyzable. That is, every man believes that he has a greater possibility. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Samuel Beckett quote: "Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot."
Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot. Samuel Beckett
The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs. Annie Dillard
Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda. Bertrand Russell
We all know that books will burn -- yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sam Keen quote: "We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will..."
We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel. Sam Keen
Carson McCullers quote: "How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the..."
How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind? Carson McCullers
Ronald Reagan quote: "Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate..."
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere. Ronald Reagan

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