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“If you don't give something back when you get, you don't keep.”
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“In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false ideas, some of the most absurd ideas a brain can hold. ... but all this give no uneasiness to the average brain. That long-suffering organ has been trained for more thousands of years than history can uncover to hold in unquestioning patience great blocks of irrelevant idiocy and large active lies.”
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“When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings.”
Source : David Elkind (1981). “The hurried child: growing up too fast too soon”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
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“I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain.”
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“I believe you've got to utilize what god gave you, so if you have facial hair, there are ways to look good while sporting it.”
Source : Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.
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“One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.”
Source : Bernard Crick (1954). “In defence of politics”, p.89, Bernard Crick
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“First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts.”
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“A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip.”
Source : Merrill Markoe (2011). “What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned”, p.200, Villard