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How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No. A woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness. Gilbert K. Chesterton
The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way. Judith Martin
Timothy Leary quote: "LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic..."
LSD is a psychedelic drug which occasionally causes psychotic behavior in people who have NOT taken it. Timothy Leary
Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what. Andy Warhol
Press conference [on the movie Carrington] yielded the usual crop of daftness. I've been asked if I related personally to Carrington's tortured relationship with sex and replied that no, not really, I'd had a very pleasant time since I was fifteen. This elicited very disapproving copy from the Brits ... No wonder people think we don't have sex in England. Emma Thompson
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish. Edith Sitwell
I could not see how poor people had the means of being kind, and then to learn to speak like them, to adopt their manners, to be uneducated, to grow up like one of the poor women [...]: no, I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste. Charlotte Bronte
Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "Other people's stories may become part of your own, the..."
Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on. Ursula K. Le Guin
Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more ridiculous a certain fashion is, the more adolescents will cling to it. David Eddings
Scratching Yogi's ears Michelle says 'That's just part of his job, the comforting. That's what I mean by the bhatisvata. That he's more concerned with comforting and helping, even more than his own well-being." This is a trait that more "people" should encompass. Chuck Palahniuk
George Orwell quote: "It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you."
It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you. George Orwell
William F. Buckley, Jr. quote: "I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the..."
I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. William F. Buckley, Jr.
The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say. Abraham Lincoln
Victor Hugo quote: "Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men"
Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men Victor Hugo

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