"People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."

-- Bertrand Russell

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“That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may have an idea, but you can't be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings.”
“I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.”
“...she could only wait for someone, something, to free her from the invisible chains that bound her.”
“They know enough who know how to learn.”

Source : The Education of Henry Adams ch. 21 (1907)
“I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too”
“Happy Birthday, Mr Presidenttttt”
“My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that â€œdoesnâ€™t count,â€ i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic principles. Every word, every action, every moment counts. (This is the pattern on which everybody makes mistakes [or] becomes irrational â€” not relating their one action or one conviction to another.”
“Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick Blaine: If I gave you any thought I probably would.”

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