"My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life."

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Mary McCarthy

#Real Quotes #Hazards Quotes #Helping Quotes

“Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.”
“We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.”

Source : O. Henry (2006). “Selected Stories”, p.13, Penguin
“George W. Bush will have to come to the UN and admit that he was wrong.”
“Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.”
“Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of the mind.”
“Grammy ***** weekend in LA. Yuck ... The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world (and each other) they're relevant.”
“Stand up to hypocrisy. If you don't, the hypocrites will teach. Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease. Stand up for Truth! If you don't, there is no Truth to your existence. If you don't stand up for all that is right, then understand that you are part of the reason that there is no balance in the world, and why others will always stand under!”

Source : "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.
“The more conscious I am of the work God has yet to do in me, the less critical I am about what he has yet to do in you”

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