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"Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members."
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"A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts."
"Oh shit did you just dis the feminine genderI'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blenderYou think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhymeBut I got flow like Ghostbusters got slimeObjectify women and it's fuckin' onYou'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon."
"I was pure, before you defiled me, and don't you forget it. As though the concept of purity is anything more than the construct of selfish, competitive men stampeding toward the women to call dibs. I'll be damned if I'm not worth stampeding toward, but the prize had better be me, hymen or no hymen."
"It's strange how money seems to silence a neighborhood," I say quietly. "On my street, where no one has money, it's so loud. Sirens blaring, people shouting, car doors slamming, stereos thumping. There's always someone, somewhere, making noise."
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"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."
"All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now."
"To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!' (Buck, 57)"
"I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels."
"You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings."
"Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman."
"This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night."
"Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung"
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