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I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read. Twyla Tharp
Noel Coward quote: "AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really,..."
AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. Noel Coward
Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. The greatest thing about this man is he's steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday. Events can change; this man's beliefs never will. Stephen Colbert
Joseph Campbell quote: "I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary..."
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child. Joseph Campbell
Why can't you fly now, mother?"Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way."Why do they forget the way?"Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly. J. M. Barrie
James Thurber quote: "You can fool too many people, too much of the time."
You can fool too many people, too much of the time. James Thurber
The important thing about songs is that they're just like stories. They don't mean a damn unless there's people listenin' to them. Neil Gaiman
Karl Marx quote: "The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of..."
The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs. Karl Marx
You and I are like the first two people on earth who at the beginning of the world had nothing to cover themselves with - at the end of it, you and I are just as stripped and homeless. And you and I are the last remembrance of all that immeasurable greatness which has been created in all the thousands of years between their time and ours, and it is in memory of all that vanished splendour that we live and love and weep and cling to one another. Boris Pasternak
The best and most clear indicator that we are progressing spiritually and coming unto Christ is the way we treat other people. Marvin J. Ashton
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar ChavezAddress to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984 Cesar Chavez
It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then. Mario Puzo
Lilacs on a bush are better than orchids. And dandelions and devil grass are better! Why? Because they bend you over and turn you away from all the people in the town for a little while and sweat you and get you down where you remember you got a nose again. And when you’re all to yourself that way, you’re really proud of yourself for a little while; you get to thinking things through, alone. Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody... Ray Bradbury
We are bound first to imform ourselves concerning so great a matter as the revolt of millions of people- what they are struggling for, what they are struggling against, and how the struggle stands- from day to day...as best you can; and second, to spread this knowledge among others, and endeavor to do what little you can to awaken the consciousness and sympathy of others. Voltairine de Cleyre
So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. HELL IS--OTHER PEOPLE! Jean-Paul Sartre

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