"Utopias are often just premature truths."

-- Alphonse de Lamartine

“I feel like women are frequently seen as guests in the comedy world - you know, a kid sister of the â€œreal comediansâ€. I like the idea of positioning myself as legendary rather than trying to fit in. Now do I see myself like that every day? No, but I think it's a funny attitude and maybe on some weird, spiritual level, maybe it's a good attitude.”
“The audience swelled to six in the end and we all huddled in a corner.”
“I'm not perfect. But clothes help. A good bra with some underwire definitely helps a lot!”
“We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal”
“Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, "He writes murder mysteries.”
“I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor.”

Source : Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft (1913). “Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz”, Putnam Juvenile
“I started going to a piano teacher at 5 years old, but pretty soon I started picking things out on my own and stopped taking music lessons. I never could read music very well, but I've still been doing it.”
“If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.”

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