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“I've seen some springs that ended up being terrible winters. We human beings are gregarious. We can't live alone. For our lives to be possible, we depend on society. It's one thing to overturn a government or block the streets. But it's a different matter altogether to create and build a better society, one that needs organization, discipline and long-term work. Let's not confuse the two of them. I want to make it clear: I feel sympathetic with that youthful energy, but I think it's not going anywhere if it doesn't become more mature.”
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“I like kissing people because it's funny.”
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“Midnight Special on a sabre track movering movering, first stop Mercy and the last Hallelujah.”
Source : Robert Earl Hayden, Frederick Glaysher (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.182, University of Michigan Press
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“When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.”
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“Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for you only according to their own arbitrary rhythm. The notion that human caring, the effort to do better for people, might make a difference can seem hopelessly naive. But it isn't.”
Source : Atul Gawande (2010). “Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance”, p.10, Profile Books
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“If it is light, leave it white.”
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“The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face.”
Source : "The News Quiz", BBC Radio 4, November 2008.