"If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life....Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism."

-- Chester Himes

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“Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built.”
“The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.”
“I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect LaocoÃ¶n of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!”
“I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.”
“Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts.”

Source : Osbert Lancaster (1975). “A cartoon history of architecture”, Harvard Common Pr
“Gentlemen, as we study the universe we see everywhere the most tremendous manifestations of force. In our own experience we know of but one source of force, namely will. How then can we help regarding the forces we see in nature as due to the will of some omnipresent, omnipotent being? Gentlemen, there must be a GOD.”
“Difficult situations breed astonishing results.”
“Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.”

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