"It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you."

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Source : Ouida (2016). “Signa”, p.14, Ouida

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“Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.”
“I can be bought, but not bored.”
“Without peace and the rule of law, civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights cannot be enjoyed, when killing, maiming and mutual poisoning prevail.”

Source : "Rights Expert Urges the UN General Assembly to Adopt a More Decisive Role in Peace-making". "Alfred de Zayas' Human Rights Corner" blog, dezayasalfred.wordpress.com. September 26, 2013.
“Party politics is now a real farce.”
“Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them!”
“Love is giving up your needs for the sake of someone else, in some other words its sacrifice”
“When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.”
“It's not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater, and I probably would have settled in New York because it was closer. I was going to go to NYU.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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