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You had to wonder who all these people in their cars were leaving behind and who they were driving toward, and if they knew that in the distance, the echo of their tires on the asphalt sounded like a river, and that to someone like me, it could seem like the miracle I'd been looking for. Alice Hoffman
Momma, a welfare cheater. A criminal who couldn't stand to se her kids go hungry, or grow up in slumbs and end up mugging people in dar corners. I guess the system didn't want her to get off relief, the way it kept sending social workers around to be sure Momma wasn't trying to make things better. Dick Gregory
Leo Tolstoy quote: "To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are..."
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it. Leo Tolstoy
Maybe you feel pressure to be positive because so many people rely on your good, fake-positive energy? If that's the case, screw everybody else. You're not a bottle of Valium. Augusten Burroughs
Many suburban legislators representing affluent school districts use terms such as "sinkhole" when opposing funding for Chicago's children. "We can't keep throwing money," said Governor Thompson in 1988, "into a black hole." The Chicago Tribune notes that, when this phrase is used, people hasten to explain that it is not intended as a slur against the race of many of Chicago's children. "But race," says the Tribune, "never is far from the surface... Jonathan Kozol
Lao Tzu quote: "If we could renounce our benevolence and discard our..."
If we could renounce our benevolence and discard our righteousness, the people would again become filial and kindly. Lao Tzu
James Patterson quote: "You string people along enough, the string withers, then it..."
You string people along enough, the string withers, then it breaks - Seamus James Patterson
How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that come nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams. Bram Stoker
It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of regret. I was trying to heal. Trying to get the bad out of my system so I could be good again. To cure me of myself. Cheryl Strayed
Aldous Huxley quote: "O brave new world that has such people in it."
O brave new world that has such people in it. Aldous Huxley
Orson Scott Card quote: "Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow..."
Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people. Orson Scott Card
Justin Bieber quote: "I just want to be young and fun and you know I think people..."
I just want to be young and fun and you know I think people should all wear yellow shoes. Justin Bieber
There,' said Wednesday, 'is one who "does not have the faith and will not have the fun". Chesterton. Pagan indeed. So. Shall we go out onto the street, Easter my dear, and repeat the exercise? Find out how many passers-by know that their Easter festival takes its name from Eostre of the Dawn? Let's see - I have it. We shall ask a hundred people. For every one that knows the truth, you may cut off one of my fingers, and when I run out of them, toes; for every twenty who don't know you spend a... Neil Gaiman
You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical. Idries Shah
Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business. Madeleine L'Engle

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