"Sometimes I think heâ€™s the kind of friend that grownups call a â€˜fair-weather friend.â€™ That means when everythingâ€™s going smoothly, heâ€™s the best friend a guy could want. But as soon as something goes wrongâ€¦(he) sort of turns on you."

-- Barbara Park

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Weather Quotes

“People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.”
“If you have an effect that nobody can replicate, then your phenomenon fades away. So if you want to to have a legacy, then you jolly well better have an effect that replicates.”
“All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn of all such richness as a voyage across the water, a fair man that loves you, a dark woman that means you harm.”
“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”

Source : Horace Mann (1872). “Annual Reports on Education”, p.669
“I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.”
“Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.”

Source : "Justin Townes Earle: Steve’s Son? Yes, Just as Talented, but Not Political and Much More Fun". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2010.
“A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty.”
“The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.”

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