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“No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.”
Source : Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People”
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“Look, we ought to do this for our kids… We ought to have a high school so that every kid who grows up here — they’re all our kids — gets a good high school education.”
Source : "Why you should care about other people’s kids". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. March 19, 2015.
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“If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points.”
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“I'm not super-conservative, but a bit of tradition is nice.”
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“Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.”
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“You have to find a way to laugh a little bit each day despite everything, or your heart will simply run out of the joy that makes it go.”
Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.90, Random House
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“In England, they say that Manchester is the city of rain. It's main attraction is considered to the timetable at the railway station, where trains leave for other, less rainy cities.”
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“Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships.”