"The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy."

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Source : Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

Dawn Powell

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“Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.”

Source : Leland Ryken (1995). “Redeeming the Time: A Christian Approach to Work and Leisure”, p.105, Baker Academic
“Sure I'm cut but not for the sake of vanity...”
“Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.”
“Once that was over, I knew that my ties to a football organization would be over because I never wanted to coach or be in the front office.”
“Any man who has been given the honor of being promoted to general and who says, "I will protect another general who protects Communists," is not fit to wear that uniform, general.”

Source : Remark to Gen. Ralph Zwicker during the Army investigations (18 February 1954), as quoted in "A Conspiracy So Immense" by David M. Oshinsky, 2005.
“Since I was a kid, I always felt the need to share the music I love with as many people as possible, and DJing seemed like the perfect outlet.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against his will, whose notion of Beauty always differs from yours and whose means (strength, imagination, technique) are often too limited to help you effectively! What torment, to have your thinking and your phantasy tied down by another person!”
“One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur.”

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