"There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good."

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Source : Song: Dirty No-Gooder's Blues

Bessie Smith

#Men Quotes #Fool Quotes #Nineteen Quotes

“I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.”

Source : "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2003.
“It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.”

Source : Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”
“The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.”
“Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.”
“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”

Source : Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.388, Scholastic Inc.
“I have a love of baseball and a love of music.”
“travel has been stepped up to such a speed that one can have dinner in New York and indigestion in Madrid ...”

Source : Sheila Ostrander (1968). “Etiquette, Etc: A Concise Guide with a Fresh Look”
“A man that does not love praise is not a full man.”

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