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The peace the world pretends to desire is really no peace at all. To some men, peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others, peace means the freedom to rob brothers without interruption. To still others, it means the leisure to devour the goods of the earth without being compelled to interrupt their pleasures to feed those whom their greed is starving. And to practically everybody, peace simply means the absence of any... Thomas Merton
I know hardly anything about Galahad except that everybody dislikes him."Dislikes him?"They complain about him being inhuman."Lancelot considered his cup."He is inhuman," he said at last. "But why should he be human? Are angels supposed to be human? T. H. White
In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world. David Hume
And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I'd been afraid for a long time, I'd been afraid for a long time. There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world. Jean Rhys
Allen Ginsberg quote: "It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's..."
It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now. Allen Ginsberg
A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed. Christopher Hitchens
David Foster Wallace quote: "I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm..."
I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers... David Foster Wallace
Shusaku Endo quote: "A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks..."
A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face. Shusaku Endo
Rowdy fought everybody. He fought boys and girls. Men and women. He fought stray dogs. Hell, he fought the weather. He'd throw wild punches at rain. Honestly. Sherman Alexie
Big Brother fills us all with the same crap. My guess is he was clever the same way everybody thinks they're clever. I tell her to type in 'password Chuck Palahniuk
I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often. Charles Bukowski
Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Arnold Schwarzenegger quote: "You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak;..."
You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Laurie Anderson quote: "and there was a beautiful view but nobody could see cause..."
and there was a beautiful view but nobody could see cause everybody on the island was saying look at me Laurie Anderson
God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, ie., everybody, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. Terry Prachett

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