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Bill Watterson quote: "Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know..."
Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words. Bill Watterson
After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a decomposed head, too, and before leaving work she planned to simmer it and study the exposed cranium for contusions. I was asked to pass this information along to the chief medical examiner, and, looking back, I perhaps should have chosen my words more carefully. 'Fire up the kettle,' I told him. 'Ol'-fashioned skull boil at five p. m. David Sedaris
Seth Godin quote: "If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t..."
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position. Seth Godin
Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal. Yehudi Menuhin
Thomas S. Monson quote: "The good you have done, the kind words you have spoken, the..."
The good you have done, the kind words you have spoken, the love you have shown to others, can never be fully measured. Thomas S. Monson
E. B. White quote: "A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work..."
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper. E. B. White
He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear.~Jose Aracadio Segundo BuendiaAfter the second banana slaughter Gabriel Garcia Marquez
With regard to equality, this word must not be understood to mean that degress of power and wealth should be exactly the same, but rather that with regard to power, it should be incapable of all violence and never exerted except by virtue of status and the laws; and with regard to wealth, no citizen should be so opulent that he can buy another, and none so poor that he is constrained to sell himself. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
William Shakespeare quote: "Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words"
Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words William Shakespeare
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great words of prideful men are ever punished with great blows, and, in old age, teach the chastened to be wise. Sophocles
This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss. Ursula K. Le Guin
Mark Twain quote: "No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's..."
No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's own words can be uninteresting. Mark Twain
Malcolm X quote: "I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"
I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected Malcolm X
Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values. Mark Twain
I stood in the middle of the room flipping and Pusher was plucking at the guitar, just one string, and I went up to him and said, 'Man don't pluck those dirty notes at ME,' and like he just got up without a word and left. [Mardou] Jack Kerouac

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