"We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage."

-- Iris DeMent

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“I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.”

Source : "Kubrick, Inside a Film Artist's Maze". Book by Thomas Allen Nelson, p. 10, 2000.
“There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.”
“And when it comes to gettin nookie, I'm not a rookie... I got girls that make that chick Toni Braxton look like Whoopi.”

Source : Song: Put it On, Album: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous
“At the most we gaze at it in wonder, a kind of wonder which in itself is a form of dawning horror, for somehow we know by instinct that outsize buildings cast the shadow of their own destruction before them, and are designed from the first with an eye to their later existence as ruins.”

Source : W. G. Sebald (2013). “Austerlitz”, p.30, Penguin UK
“Well, first you have to be very, very funny. I have realized that it is essential for a boy to be funny. Otherwise, what is the point in a boy?”
“Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.”
“there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.”

Source : Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.”

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