"I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire."

-- Denise Mina

#School Quotes #Warrior Quotes #Men Quotes

“There are friends and faces that may be forgotten, but there are horses that never will be.”

Source : Andy Adams (2015). “The Log of a Cowboy”, p.85, Booklassic
“Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most.”
“Invention is the mother of necessity.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (1994). “Absentee Ownership: Business Enterprise in Recent Times : the Case of America”, p.63, Transaction Publishers
“The Civil Rights Commission should never have been brought into existence. It has been most prejudiced in its viewpoint, and has fomented trouble and racial disturbance since its inception. It should be abolished, not extended.”
“Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.”
“The great secret possessed by the great men of all ages was their ability to contact and release the powers of their subconscious mind. You can do the same.”
“We are good citizens, and we cannot protect ourselves because you allow the criminals to run wild. ... I'd like you to come and live in the inner city for a week and see the importance of having a weapon. ... Go after the criminals and not the good people.”
“Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.”

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