"Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart."

-- Virginia Woolf

“American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.”
“Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place?”

Source : Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.”
“There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.”
“O lovely O most charming pug Thy gracefull air and heavenly mug ... His noses cast is of the roman He is a very pretty weoman I could not get a rhyme for roman And was obliged to call it weoman.”

Source : 'Poems'
“You’ll never have a 16-team playoff in college football. The most that could happen would be four teams in the next century. But after that, I’m dead, so who cares?”
“What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.”

Source : Orison Swett Marden (1997). “Exceptional Employee”, p.114
“The timing & characteristics of state intervention affect not only organizational tactics and strategies, but the content and definition of interest itself... Some scholars have directly stressed that state interventions create corporatist forms... the formation, let alone the political capabilities, of such purely socioeconomic phenomena as interest groups and classes depends in significant measure on the structures and activities of the very states the social actors, in turn, seek to influence.”

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