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Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor..."
I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule. Laurell K. Hamilton
Giving, not getting, brings to full bloom the Christmas spirit. Enemies are forgiven, friends remembered, and God obeyed. The spirit of Christmas illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world’s busy life and become more interested in people than things. To catch the real meaning of the “spirit of Christmas,” we need only drop the last syllable, and it becomes the “Spirit of Christ. Thomas S. Monson
The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently? he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking. The sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence. Walter Isaacson
At the essential landscape stare, stare. Till your eyes foist a vision dazzling on the wind: Whatever lost ghosts flare, Damned, howling in their shrouds across the moor. Rave on the leash of the starving mind. Which peoples the bare room, the blank, untenanted air. Sylvia Plath
Hunter S. Thompson quote: "It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat..."
It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die. Hunter S. Thompson
Then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love. Their situation is a dangerous as the situation in the first category. One day the eyes of their beloved will close, and the room will go dark. Milan Kundera
Tolerance, inter-cultural dialogue and respect for diversity are more essential than ever in a world where peoples are becoming more and more closely interconnected. Kofi Annan
...love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat with no ground under their feet. Robert Musil
The rudeness of many Americans depressed him, a rudeness based on a solid ignorance of the whole concept of manners, and on the proposition that for social purposes, all people are more or less equal and interchangeable. William S. Burroughs
the patron god of children born on Thursdays is Shiva the Destroyer, and that the day has two guiding animal spirits--the lion and the tiger. The official tree of children born on Thursday is the banyan. The official bird is the peacock. A person born on Thursday is always talking first, interrupting everyone else, can be a little aggressive, tends to be handsome ("a playboy or playgirl," in Ketut's words) but has a decent overall character, with an excellent memory and a desire to help... Elizabeth Gilbert
Alan Dean Foster quote: "The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption."
The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption. Alan Dean Foster
Oscar Wilde quote: "I felt that this grey, monstrous London of ours, with its..."
I felt that this grey, monstrous London of ours, with its myriads of people, its sordid sinners and its splendid sins Oscar Wilde
To be brutally honest, for much of that time, I was the only person in the world with Parkinson's. Of course, I mean that in the abstract. I had become acutely aware of people around me who appears to have the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, but as long as they didn't identify with me, I was in no rush to identify with them. My situation allowed, if not complete denial, at least a thick padding of insulation. Michael J. Fox
Frances Hodgson Burnett quote: "Things happen to people by accident. - Sara Crewe"
Things happen to people by accident. - Sara Crewe Frances Hodgson Burnett
You can tell by the way the girls whisper about him when he walks by in school that they want him. It makes me jealous but not for the reason people would think. Good hunting partners are hard to find. Suzanne Collins

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