"Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic."

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"Be interested yourself, and you will interest others."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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

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"Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"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."

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

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"When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"You have every right in the world to choose the kind of people that you place in your inner circle. By all means stay clear from negative minded individuals who are constantly very bitter with their lives and the lives of others. They wouldn't be too happy to watch you live a blissful life."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

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

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"I'm typically single. I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating."

Taylor Swift, American Musician

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"Less small talk and more real talk."

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"Be interested yourself, and you will interest others."

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

"Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most."

"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."

"When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't."

"You have every right in the world to choose the kind of people that you place in your inner circle. By all means stay clear from negative minded individuals who are constantly very bitter with their lives and the lives of others. They wouldn't be too happy to watch you live a blissful life."

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

"I'm typically single. I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating."

"Less small talk and more real talk."

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"You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination."

"Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves."

"Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made."

"If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted."

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"A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough."

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"No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start."