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  • Carolyn Chute What poor people go through, it's amazing they don't do more violent things! If they'd just give you a little dignity, it might help you stand it better. They suffer no heat, no electricity, while you're working, but then you've got to face all the insults, too.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Samuel Johnson What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bertolt Brecht What rapture, oh, it is to know
    A good thing when you see it
    And having seen a good thing, oh,
    What rapture 'tis to flee it.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • George Bernard Shaw What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Shirley Lord What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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  • John Ruskin What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Ben Shapiro What sort of job can you hold in America in which it is safe to hold the personal conviction that same-sex marriage is wrong? The answer: there is no such job. Except Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. Then you're fine.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bee Wilson What strikes me, the more I cook, is that the best recipes are ones where the basic anatomy is so sound it will survive multiple adjustments. When a recipe has good bones, you can change the seasoning, double the garlic, swap lime for lemon, and it still turns out delicious.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Alan Watts What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Jean Cocteau What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Bertolt Brecht What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
    Mother Courage and Her Children The Sergeant, in Scene 1
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bono What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Kurt Vonnegut What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Ronald Reagan What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Arthur Laffer What we're talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for the fact that you get fewer goods. And when you have more money and fewer goods, the amount of dollars per good goes up. It goes up because there are fewer goods and it goes up because there is more money.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Bruce Babbitt What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Epictetus What will the world be quite overturned when you die?
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Barney Frank What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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