"An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."

-- H. L. Mencken

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“Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if youve truly lived through it.”

Source : "Losing Your Job And Learning What You’re Made Of" by Mika Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“When you look at the biggest study of the American dream, the number-one correlate for upward mobility is having two parents in a home. It doesn't matter if they're male or female.”
“It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.”
“... we ought to have saints' days to commemorate the great discoveries which have been made for all mankind, and perhaps for all time-or for whatever time may be left to us. Nature ... is a prodigal of pain. I should like to find a day when we can take a holiday, a day of jubilation when we can fÃªte good Saint Anaesthesia and chaste and pure Saint Antiseptic. ... I should be bound to celebrate, among others, Saint Penicillin...”
“I think of dieting, then I eat pizza.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There are a lot of places in the world I'd like to visit, like Laos, but I don't know whether I'll ever make it there. I'd love to go to Laos and Kazakhstan and some other places I wouldn't feel comfortable traveling to alone. But I haven't found anyone to go with me yet.”

Source : Source: www.theskanner.com
“If your country needs you, you should be right there, that is the way I felt when I was young, and that's the way I feel today.”
“I think it is very difficult for somebody who campaigned to stay in, who thinks there will be disaster if we leave and so on to suddenly turn it around and start believing that we can make a go of it.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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