"We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time."

-- Robert Dale Owen

#Slavery Quotes

“Hard work ain't so easy, strength training is just plain old hard work and it ain't easy.”
“So quiet...it's like...all the sounds in the world...have been stopped...only you scent...in the deepest part of my heart...echoing...”
“I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.”

Source : Jules Feiffer (1977). “Hold Me!”, p.44, Dramatists Play Service Inc
“The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.”
“The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.”
“Some of us learn from other peopleâ€™s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.”
“At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a leaf, and then some Matthew McConaughey type either whips around the corner just in the nick of time to save her or is clumsily pulled down along with her. That event predictably leads to the magical moment of their first kiss. Please. I fall ALL the time. You know who comes and gets me? The bouncer.”
“Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.”

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