"We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians."

-- James P. Hoffa

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“When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.”
“In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the nerves of people, who do not know what fear is, shake, just as the window-panes rattle from distant cannonading.”
“Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.”

Source : Cecilia bk. 4, ch. 2 (1782)
“The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.”
“Entertainment must be a satisfying emotional experience, a stirring of the heart. We need all kinds of young men and women. Those people with an artist's eye and an executive's brain that we term directors. Those wrestlers with their souls and typewriters known as authors. The beggars on horseback called actors and actresses.”

Source : Hedda Hopper (2017). “The Whole Truth and Nothing But”, p.266, Graymalkin Media
“It's not that I prefer black girls, but that's who I find myself relating to as a human being. I am also attracted to really ghetto girls, straight out the hood... a thickey, a real 'pass the hot sauce' type girl.”

Source : "Color Commentary: When Celebrities Talk Interracial Dating". "VIBE" Magazine, www.complex.com. February 12, 2010.
“What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?”
“I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.”

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