"Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it; but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof."

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William Makepeace Thackeray

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“My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.”
“The empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIV/AIDS emergency from exploding any further”
“For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.”
“I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.”
“The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.”

Source : "Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, (Chapter 7, Descent Into The Mirror, p. 181), 1989.
“Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur”

Source : "The D.J. Maestros Axwell and Ingrosso Aim to Shake the Rafters". www.nytimes.com. April 1, 2015.
“I stand up, sure of one thing and one thing only. That my father will come and get me. He won't give me a lecture, he won't try to teach me a lesson. He won't ask a thousand questions or ask me to apologize. He'll just come and get me. "Just tell me where you are.”

Source : Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”
“My mother passed away, my marriage ended, and I moved. Those are some pretty big things to let go of. But I find that if you hold on to something too tightly, you strangle it and yourself. If you don't let go, and let things go through you, it's toxic - physically.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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