"We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap."

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"The tragedy of this age is that many are hungry for the wrong reasons."

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Social, Hunger, Tragedy, Desire, Misunderstanding

"Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over, you look a sad saddo if you don't."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes."

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"I left journalism because I met too many interesting people at an uninteresting salary."

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"Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it deserves the attention of the United States government and the people."

John F. Kennedy, American President

Social, Job, Attention, Government, Help

"If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them."

C. JoyBell C., American Author

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"Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Social, Respect, Love, Invention, Emotion

"The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power.The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic admiration."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Social, Struggle, Strength, Prejudice, Race

"Frequently, I have been asked how I got to be this way. How did I, born black in a white country, poor in a society where wealth is adored and sought after at all costs, female in an environment where only large ships and some engines are described favourably by using the female pronoun-how did I get to be Maya Angelou?"

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Social, Identity, Race, Struggle, Resilience

"A town with many men who are less educated and as such ignorant of the real solution to the woes of their society has the same problem as a town with many intellectuals and yet with many problems."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Social, Education, Ignorance, Society, Problems

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"The tragedy of this age is that many are hungry for the wrong reasons."

"Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over, you look a sad saddo if you don't."

"Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes."

"I left journalism because I met too many interesting people at an uninteresting salary."

"Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it deserves the attention of the United States government and the people."

"If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them."

"Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be."

"A town with many men who are less educated and as such ignorant of the real solution to the woes of their society has the same problem as a town with many intellectuals and yet with many problems."

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"The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it."

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"If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you."

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"There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them."

"Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name."

"Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children."