"Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes."

-- Voltaire

#History Quotes #Crime Quotes #Dump Quotes

“In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.”
“This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, Doc, my brotherâ€™s crazy. He thinks heâ€™s a chicken. The doctor says, Well, why donâ€™t you turn him in? And the guy says, I would but I need the eggs. Well I guess thatâ€™s pretty much how I feel about relationships. You know theyâ€™re totally irrational and crazy and absurd but I guess we keep going through it because, uh, most of us need the eggs.”
“I got to give mom credit for how she handled it.She didn't try to pry and get all the details. All she said was that I should try to do "the right thing" because it's our choices that make us who we are. I figure that's pretty decent advice. But I'm still not 100% sure what I'm going to do tomorrow.”

Source : Jeff Kinney (2012). “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”, p.189, Abrams
“No woman should ever lift more than 3lbs”
“If I fall if I die know I lived it to the fullest, if I fall if I die know I lived and missed some bullets”
“Yes, and many times it's frustrating, because I'm simply part of the show, and I'm not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out.”
“All sentient beings should have at least one rightâ€”the right not to be treated as property”
“People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.”

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