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Rita Rudner quote: "I had the most boring office job in the world...I used to..."
I had the most boring office job in the world...I used to clean the windows on envelopes. Rita Rudner
Emily Giffin quote: "And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a..."
And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her. Emily Giffin
As I get older I find that the friendships that are the most certain, ultimately, are the ones where you and the other person have made substantial amounts of money for one another. Jonathan Lethem
But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured. The miserable companion of thieves and ruffians, the fallen outcast of low haunts, the associate of the scourings of the jails and hulks, living within the shadow of the gallows itself,--even this degraded being felt too proud to betray a feeble gleam of the womanly feeling which she thought a weakness, but which alone conneced her with that... Charles Dickens
Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Henry B. Adams quote: "Good men do the most harm."
Good men do the most harm. Henry B. Adams
The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it. David Attenborough
Christopher Hitchens quote: "It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question..."
It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one. Christopher Hitchens
Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers] Thurgood Marshall
In what resides the most characteristic Virtue of humanity? In good works? Possibly. In the creation of beautiful objects? Perhaps. But some would look in a different direction, and find it in detachment. To all such David Hume must be a great saint in the calendar; for no mortal being was ever more completely divested of the trammels of the personal and the particular, none ever practiced with more consummated success the divine art of impartiality Lytton Strachey
Ray Bradbury quote: "I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least..."
I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love. Ray Bradbury
We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile. J. R. R. Tolkien
People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. They did not give or ask for reasons. 'Reason,' Dr. Pritchett had told them, 'is the most naive of all superstitions.' 'The source of public opinion?' said Claude Slagenhop in a public radio speech. 'There is no source of public opinion. It is spontaneously general. It is a reflex of the collective instinct of the collective mind. Ayn Rand
It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence. Friedrich Nietzsche
Oscar Wilde quote: "The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses."
The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses. Oscar Wilde

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