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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."
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"William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!"
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"Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him."
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"Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly."
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"When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him, they're concerned about their daughter's tummy."
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"The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there's a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under."
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"I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business con."
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"The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say."
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"It was masturbation, not willpower, that made it possible for gazillions of women to walk down the aisle with their reputation and their hymen still intact."
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"If we should be worrying about anything to do with the future of English, it should not be that the various strands will drift apart but that they will grow indistinguishable. And what a sad, sad loss that would be."
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"People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while."
Work
"Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do."
Heart
"I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead."
Family
"Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom."
Office
"Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?"
Time
"Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process."
Reading
"The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time."
Time
"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
Being
"Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering."
Time
"Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike."
Relationship
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