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Sherman Alexie quote: "When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's..."
When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer. Sherman Alexie
How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed! Margaret Mitchell
Raymond Burr quote: "Try to live your life the way you wish other people would live..."
Try to live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs. Raymond Burr
Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you understand it, as you have experienced it, with the people or material who are in you, who are asking that you help them get written, you will come to a secret feeling of honor. Anne Lamott
Scott Adams quote: "Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people's hard..."
Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people's hard work is rewarding and faster. Scott Adams
My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden. Alice Hoffman
Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of [people] willing to be co-workers with God. Martin Luther King jr.
Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today. Kurt Vonnegut
Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you need a hug. It's dangerous, which is why it makes people so nervous. Virtue has its own agenda, and believe me, it's not always yours. The word itself means strength, power. And when it gets loose, you'd better watch out."Something bad might happen..."Impossible. But possibly something painful"-A Wizard Alone by Diane Duane Diane Duane
The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of the diseases were all in the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional Earthling doctors couldn't see those causes at all, or even imagine them. Kurt Vonnegut
Bono quote: "In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous,..."
In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves. Bono
Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness. Neil Gaiman
Henry David Thoreau quote: "What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can."
What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Henry David Thoreau
He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone Ernest Hemingway
So abased, so monotonous is everything that meets the eye, that when the Ganges comes down it might be expected to wash the excrescence back into the soil. Houses do fall, people are drowned and left rotting, but the general outline of the town persists, welling here, shrinking there, like some low but indestructible form of life. E. M. Forster

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