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John Kenneth Galbraith quote: "Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving..."
Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. John Kenneth Galbraith
It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Frank Herbert
Dante Alighieri quote: "And I? my head oppressed by horror? said:"Master, what is it..."
And I? my head oppressed by horror? said:"Master, what is it that I hear? Who arethose people so defeated by their pain?" Dante Alighieri
So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, invulnerable, clever. Sylvia Plath
Common sense isn't a real thing. And its ugly cousin, fairness, is a concept invented so dumb people could participate in arguments. Scott Adams
Stephen King quote: "Even people capable of living in the past don't really know..."
Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds. Stephen King
He refused tea, but Mrs. Crowley poured out a cup and handed it to him. 'You need not drink it, but I insist on your hoding it in your hand. I hat people who habitually deny themselves things. W. Somerset Maugham
Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum. Alexander Dumas
There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow. Ernest Hemingway
Because that’s really something I can’t stand — when people refer to themselves as crazy. The truly crazy are labeled so on the grounds that they see nothing wrong with their behavior. They forge ahead, lighting fires in public buildings and defecating in frying pans without the slightest notion that they are out of step with the rest of society. That, to me, is crazy. David Sedaris
This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other. Ernest Hemingway
Bertolt Brecht quote: "Girl Tractorist: As the poet Mayakovsky said: "The home of the..."
Girl Tractorist: As the poet Mayakovsky said: "The home of the Soviet people shall be the home of Reason"! Bertolt Brecht
My Life is a barren and lonely one, and so full of work that I have not had much time for friendships...I have known so many good people and seen such nobility that I feel more than ever-and it has grown with my advancing years-the lonliness of my life. Believe, me, then, that I come here full of respect for you, and you have given me hope-hope, not in what I am seeking of, but that there are good women still left to make life happy." Dr Van Helsing to Mia Seward. Bram Stoker
Alice Munro quote: "Life would be grand if it weren't for the people."
Life would be grand if it weren't for the people. Alice Munro
Jodi Picoult quote: "These days her entire life was about making people believe she..."
These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore. Jodi Picoult

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