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I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. William Shakespeare
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it. Thomas Carlyle
There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They have got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt. Bob Dylan
Tom Robbins quote: "Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's..."
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists. Tom Robbins
Annie Dillard quote: "Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless..."
Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute? Annie Dillard
Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. Eric Hoffer
Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head. -pg. 25 Edwidge Danticat
Steven Wright quote: "The other day I went to a tourist information booth and asked,..."
The other day I went to a tourist information booth and asked, 'Tell me about some of the people who were here last year. Steven Wright
I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don't deserve a decent cup of tea for what is it all about anyway? Are we put into this world to be busy or to chat over a nice cup of tea? Frank McCourt
We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country. Hubert H. Humphrey
You are a white. The Imperial Wizard. Now, if you don't think this is logic you can burn me on the fiery cross. This is the logic: You have the choice of spending fifteen years married to a woman, a black woman or a white woman. Fifteen years kissing and hugging and sleeping real close on hot nights. With a black, black woman or a white, white woman. The white woman is Kate Smith. And the black woman is Lena Horne. So you're not concerned with black or white anymore, are you? You are... Lenny Bruce
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry. Mark Twain
A group of people get together and exist as an institution we call a company so they are able to accomplish something collectively that they could not accomplish separately? they make a contribution to society, a phrase which sounds trite but is fundamental. David Packard
Theodore Roethke quote: "What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible."
What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible. Theodore Roethke
Henry Clay quote: "An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise..."
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. Henry Clay

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