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Social Quotes
"The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition."
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"Her beauty effortlessly managed to arrest the pulse of each heart at the office and keep it in a dreamlike cage where she could have a look at each at her will and derive pleasure which, it had to be said, was a touch malicious in nature."
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"I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them."
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"I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well, even elegantly, and looked as if I belonged to the best society."
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"Because the pure girls get rescued." Mary Lou felt something she didn't let herself feel often. She was well and truly pissed off. "Why do girls have to be all pure and innocent and good? Why don't guys have to be?"
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"We've been brainwashed into believing that it's a sin to discriminate. But discrimination doesn't mean racism, it means telling unlike things apart."
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"Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities."
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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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"Do not criticize others unless you are willing to accept criticism."
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"A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.So does gossip."
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"He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between."
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"There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives."
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"Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you."
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"The problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue."
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"The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together."
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"We...we could be friends.'We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not."
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"Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood."
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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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"I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all."
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"A lot of parents make you feel very awkward when you meet them."
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"Scott Waldron.' 'What?' Robbie's lip curled in a glimace of disgust. 'The jockstrap? Why, does he need you to teach him how to read?' I scowled at him. 'Just because he's captain of the football team doesn't mean you can be a jerk. Or are you jealous?' 'Oh, of course, that's it,' Robbie said with a sneer. 'I've always wanted the IQ of a rock. No, wait. That would be an insult to the rock..."
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"It is the duty of every father... to write fairy tales for his children."
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"The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power.The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic admiration."
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"Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole."
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"People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining."
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"A lonely person on a college campus is never more than a few minutes and a bad decision from company."
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"A student to teacher: "I am so alone; I don't know what to do? Teacher: "Do not worry about being alone, we always come alone and go alone. In a very sweet accident, we meet others who are alone and start to be part of them in various forms of relationships such as friends, husband, wife, mother, father, sister and so on. So, life is about sharing a moment together, not thinking as if you are alone."
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"To every rule there is an exception-and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!"
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"How do you tactfully spin the term "man-whore to someone's sister?"
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"In this era, there are all kinds of prakrutis (personality of the relative self), so how can it work without adjusting?"
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"By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation."
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"The underprivileged are byproduct of society's material progress."
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