"The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased."

-- Ida B. Wells

#Spirit Quotes #Vote Quotes #Murder Quotes

“Yes, I have known Roger Clemens for a long time.”

Source : "Mindy McCready Admits to Relationship with Roger Clemens" by Eileen Finan, people.com. April 29, 2008.
“The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.”
“A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.”

Source : Witold Gombrowicz, Danuta Borchardt (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.84, Yale University Press
“You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends”
“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”
“Indeed, being a beginner is very difficult right now. Book publishers are in a crisis, sales are dwindling, and publishing houses are losing money, doing their best to survive. It's a sign of the times, the emergence of new kinds of entertainment -- there's nothing we can do about it. I don't think books will perish for good. They could become less widespread, though, falling even further behind movies and computer games. But we shouldn't be afraid of this, because books will always remain the entertainment of choice for intelligent people, of whom there are still many in this world.”
“They're great instrumentalists, singers and songwriters and they have this unique way of blending contemporary with traditional. The result is this beautiful mix of timeless music.”
“We are not guilty because we are depraved; we are depraved because we are guilty”

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