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Social Quotes
"You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest."
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"White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or be oppressed. Black men may be victimized by racism, but sexism allows them to act as exploiters and oppressors of women. White women may be victimized by sexism, but racism enables them to act as exploiters and oppressors of black people. Both groups have led liberation movements that favor their interests and support the continued oppression of other groups. Black male sexism has undermined struggles to eradicate racism just as white female racism undermines feminist struggle. As long as these two groups or any group defines liberation as gaining social equality with ruling class white men, they have a vested interest in the continued exploitation and oppression of others."
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"They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie."
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"It's my new best friend, Claudius Templesmith, and as I expected it, he's inviting us to a feast."
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"As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone."
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"Respectability: the offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account."
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"Before Mags became a household name across Scotland, it was during the mid Nineties when she became an avid anti-paedophile campaigner against paedophiles on the Raploch Estate, attracting media attention, even appearing on Robert Kilroy-Silk's morning TV show. At the height of her anti-paedophilic crusade, she led a howling mob of protesters to a hostel near her home where a known paedophile was staying."
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"To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends."
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"A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost."
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"If you think about it, an unfair society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit."
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"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."
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"When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV."
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"Few people are spoken of in the way they would choose."
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"A big group of daily friends or a white painted house with bills and mirrors, are not a necessity to me-but an intelligent conversation while sharing another coffee, is."
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"Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.And falsehoods the truths of other people.Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
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"Your vibe creates your tribe."
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"A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances."
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"I am also committed to providing city employees with housing assistance."
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"Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised."
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"A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover."
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"Instead of overly seeking to get more 'likes' and 'followers' on social media seek to build trust and more meaningful, lasting relationships."
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"There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hushed voice, lowered just enough to make whatever is said okay. I had only been in Colby for a few weeks. But I had not forgotten."
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"You flirt with everything." She could tell that her eyes were popping-- her eyeballs actually felt cold around the edges. "You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between."
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"He had to submit to the fate of every newcomer in a small town, where many tongues talk but few heads think."
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"Women talk when they want to. Or don't."
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"Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose."
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"He with the cleanest clothes isn't necessarily the cleanest."
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"Become skilled in the process of selecting whom you allow into your circle of influence."
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"She didn't want to alienate herself from the very wealthy man that was about to offer her a job by declining the polite offer of a drink."
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"Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred."
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"Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef ... Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees..."
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"Many wealthy people donate, and while the skeptical may claim that they do so for tax breaks, there is another reason involved - as a spiritual practice."
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"The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior."
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"At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates."
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"Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn."
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"Before i could utter a word, my listeners had left me long ago."
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"Lady Caroline: As far as I can make out, the young women of the present day seem to make it the sole object of their lives to be always playing with fire. Mrs. Allonby: The one advantage of playing with fire, Lady Caroline, is that one never gets even singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up."
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"One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff."
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