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All Quotes Collection
"As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager."
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"Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever."
65
"In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions."
43
"The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother."
61
"The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle."
39
"In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us."
47
"The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury."
31
"It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people."
37
"Popular applause veers with the wind."
50
"Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war."
39
"The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter."
38
"The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors; and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession."
33
"If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure."
40
"We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years."
46
"With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon."
38
"The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives."
35
"Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom."
47
"It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school."
34
"A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom."
40
"I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons."
50
"Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part."
42
"Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated."
36
"I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago."
37
"I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women."
40
"He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different."
25
"The funny thing is all these school shootings that we have, always happen in very religious communities. Maybe it's because the centre of their lives is a big fat nothing and it's just a fantasy and there's nothing there. I think maybe that might have something to do with it."
26
"I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood."
38
"In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read."
32
"So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!"
42
"There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo."
40
"You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what you're going to do with it."
42
"I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge."
33
"I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis."
36
"Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard."
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