"What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little."

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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

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"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

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"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."

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"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."

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"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!"

Nick Hornby, English Writer

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"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."

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William James, American Philosopher

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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."

"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."

"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."

"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."

"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."

"I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!"

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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

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"The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity."

"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."

"In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy."

"Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers."

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"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."