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John Randolph quote: "All of us have two educations; one which we receive from..."
All of us have two educations; one which we receive from others; another and more valuable; which we give ourselves. John Randolph
JEANBoy, would I like to see you give some old harpie the three in one! COLONELDon't be vulgar, Jane. Let us be crooked, but never common. Preston Sturges
Mark Twain quote: "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart..."
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. Mark Twain
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. Edith Wharton
I didn't want to be left alone with Timothy, not because I was afraid of him but because I was afraid that somebody would come into the office and see us sitting there, two matching rejects in matching orange chairs. Michael Chabon
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! Rudyard Kipling
Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations. Daphne du Maurier
Matt Groening quote: "Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what..."
Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel. Matt Groening
Graham Greene quote: "Pyle could see pain when it was in front of his eyes. (I don’t..."
Pyle could see pain when it was in front of his eyes. (I don’t write that as a sneer; there are so many of us who can’t) Graham Greene
Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest,” Mrs. Grogan was saying, “and peace at last.” Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloud’s, who was seventy-something, and an ether addict, and who felt that he’d come a long way and still had a long way to go. John Irving
Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship. Nick Hornby
I’ve met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, “Why?” Why did I cause so much pain? Didn’t I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can’t I see how we’re all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God’s got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says,... Chuck Palahniuk
Paulo Coelho quote: "When we strive to become better than we are, everything around..."
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too. Paulo Coelho
I do not want to know what you will hope for. I want to know what you will work for. I do not want your sympathy for the needs of humanity. I want your muscle. As the wagon driver said when they came to a long, hard hill: ‘Them that’s going on with us, get out and push. Them that ain’t, get out of the way’. Robert Fulghum
I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand that when black people come together to celebrate and rejoice in black critical thinking, we do so not to exclude or to separate, but to participate more fully in world community. However, we must first be able to dialogue with one another, to give one another subject-to-subject recognition that is an act of resistance that is part of the... Bell Hooks

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