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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.
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When people will not weed their mind, they are apt to be overrun with nettles.
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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
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When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned.
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When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.
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When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.
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When somebody was looking in my locker, it was like going in my desk. Somebody happened to be looking in my locker when they shouldn't have been.
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When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
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When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
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When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
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When the insects take over the world we hope they will remember, with gratitude, how we took them along on all our picnics.
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When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.
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