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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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"I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said."It would look stunning, My Lady," she called.She spoke to the bubbles gathered on the surface of the water. "If there's anyone I wish to stun at dinner, I'll hit him in the face."
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"Respectability: the offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account."
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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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"To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends."
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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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"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 with the cleanest clothes isn't necessarily the cleanest."
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"Few people are spoken of in the way they would choose."
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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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"It's my new best friend, Claudius Templesmith, and as I expected it, he's inviting us to a feast."
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"The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the person who uttered them."
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"Your vibe creates your tribe."
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"Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred."
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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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"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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"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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"A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost."
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"Women talk when they want to. Or don't."
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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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"Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment."
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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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"A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances."
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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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"Adrian was completely deadpan. 'So. You're saying my sister is dressed like a prostitute."
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"Become skilled in the process of selecting whom you allow into your circle of influence."
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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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"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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"Because the state uses violence to achieve its ends, and there is no rational end to the use of violence, states grow until they destroy civilized interactions through the corruption of money, contracts, honesty, family and self-reliance.No state in history has ever been contained.It's only taken a little more than a century for the US " founded on the idea of limited government, to break the bonds of the constitution, institute the income tax, take control of the money supply and the educational system and begin its catastrophic expansion."
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"Aiden whirled on the tall cowboy. "What the fuck's your problem? Teresa looks like sex on heels so pull that stick out of your ass."
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"I am no enemy of Nepal being a fully literate society. It is a good thing for society and the nation as a whole."
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"Sunshine, I... Starla's voice broke off as she entered the room and caught sight of him standing naked in the corner. She eyed him in an odd, detached way, as if he were an interesting piece of furniture.Talon and modesty were strangers, but the way she stared at him made him damned uncomfortable. In spite of the sunlight, Talon grabbed the pink blanket off the bed and clutched it to his middle.You know, Sunshine, you need to find a man like that to marry. Someone so well hung that even after three or four kids, he'd still be wall to wall.Talon gaped.Sunshine laughed. "Starla, you're embarrassing him."
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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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"When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV."
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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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"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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"I am also committed to providing city employees with housing assistance."
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"I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy."
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