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When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when you don't have electricity, and on top of that you live under one of the most repressive regimes right now... Well, put all that together, and it's a ticking bomb. It's not of a question of threat; it is question of looking around at the present environment and making a rational prognosis. Mohamed ElBaradei
Joss Whedon quote: "To read makes our speaking English good."
To read makes our speaking English good. Joss Whedon
I’ll make Goyle do lines, it’ll kill him, he hates writing,” said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle’s low grunt and, screwing up his face in a look of pained concentration, mimed writing in midair. “I . . .must . . . not . . . look . . . like . . . a . . . baboon’s . . . backside. J. K. Rowling
The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity; and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive. Friedrich Nietzsche
My wife has been killed by a machine which should never have come into the hands of any human being. It is called a firearm. It makes the blackest of all human wishes come true at once, at a distance: that something die. Kurt Vonnegut
It sounds to me like you're making excuses," Jeb said quietly. "You're trying to convince yourself, and you're using me to listen to yourself talk. Nicholas Sparks
Nothing you do in the White House matters. You know why not? Because as far as the mass of voting morons is concerned, while you're in office, you'll still be the worst single president they've ever had until you stop. Then it's some other poor bastard's turn. And even that doesn't matter, because ten, twenty years later, they'll look back on you, and wonder why they didn't appreciate you when they had you...You don't get to make a difference. You don't get to do jack shit. You know... Neil Gaiman
Stephenie Meyer quote: "It was like fate was out to make me do everything I'd ever..."
It was like fate was out to make me do everything I'd ever sworn I wouldn't in the course of twenty-four hours. Stephenie Meyer
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first..."
She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman. Zora Neale Hurston
Margaret Atwood quote: "Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and..."
Nor did I make any distinctions between great literature and any other kind. I just liked reading. Margaret Atwood
It ought to be the employer’s ambition as leader to pay than any similar line of business, and it ought to be the workman’s ambition to make it possible Henry Ford
Every time I came to the end of a block and stepped off the goddam curb, I had this feeling that I'd never get to the other side of the street. I thought I'd just go down, down, down, and nobody'd ever see me again. Boy, did it scare me. You can't imagine. I started sweating like a bastard? my whole shirt and underwear and everything. Then I started doing something else. Every time I'd get to the end of a block I'd make believe I was talking to my brother Allie. I'd say to him, "Allie, don't... J. D. Salinger
well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work! Charles Bukowski
Jacques Derrida quote: "The Ethical can therefore end up making us irresponsible."
The Ethical can therefore end up making us irresponsible. Jacques Derrida
Most of the people I know who are having trouble finding their life work are somewhat passive in style. They wait for something good to happen to them rather than make strong positive moves. Thomas Moore

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