"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."

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"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."

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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."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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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

People, Communism, Living, Russia

"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

People, Goal, Oppression

"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

People, Bed, Now, Smoking

"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."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

People, Gay, Kids, Law

"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."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

People, Hate, Tea

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

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

People,

"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

People, Books, Want

"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."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

People, Feeling

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

William James, American Philosopher

People, First, Wind

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"The public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them."

Society

"I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies."

Knowledge

"Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon."

Virtue

"Loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game True as a dial to the sun Although it be not shined upon."

Virtue

"In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved."

Marriage

"Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone."

Life

"The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without."

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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!"

"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."

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

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"The public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them."

"I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies."

"Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon."

"Loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game True as a dial to the sun Although it be not shined upon."

"In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved."

"Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone."

"The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without."

"Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes."

"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."

"Our self-conceit sustains and always must sustain us."