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Why am I begging you, who parades your suffering over the ruins like a king in order to ensure that you will never be touched deeply, you who're always laughing. Kathy Acker
Robert Bolt quote: "The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells..."
The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it. Robert Bolt
...why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible Eric Butterworth
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful. H. L. Mencken
But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I was going to be one of those Americans who traversed Italy with my forehead knit in concentration, divining wordsw from their Latin roots and answering by wedging French cognates into Italian pronunciations spliced onto a standard Spanish verb conjugation. Barbara Kingsolver
I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag. Molly Ivins
Leonard Cohen quote: "There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the..."
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't. Leonard Cohen
There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother. Theodore Roosevelt
Thucydides quote: "You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes..."
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely. Thucydides
A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the woods. Dennis Miller
Charles Dickens quote: "No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a..."
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. Charles Dickens
There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't. Robert Benchley
For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little. The story of their coming to be shapen after the average and fit to be packed by the gross, is hardly ever told even in their consciousness; for perhaps their ardour in generous unpaid toil cooled as imperceptibly as the ardour of other... George Eliot
Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one.... This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax. Elizabeth Gilbert
It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone. Theodore Roosevelt

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