What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
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have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. Be nobel. Be the light as if you are the source of life. DEBASISH MRIDHA The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. Ther... TOM HODGKINSON Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi... DEYTH BANGER The secret of my success is my hairspray. RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just... HERBERT READ Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a sp... JEANETTE WINTERSON The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most import... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I don't know why it's so hard for people to admit that sometimes they're just assholes who screw up ... KAREN M. MCMANUS I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Some of the people we've caught have come from as far away as the interior of Mexico from as far sou... MARK SPIER I do not want a player who is a perfect man and has a fantastic character. That’s the kind of guy ... JOSé MOURINHO Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time. HELEN REDDY Loving someone who never loved you, is like remembering a face you never saw. No matter how har... RATISH EDWARDS A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful ... WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN As a hockey player, it's one of the things you dread. It made me realize to be careful out there, es... MARC CHOUINARD The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is... C. JOYBELL C. I opened myself to your silences. MARGARET ATWOOD One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this wo... SANFORD I. WEILL Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy. F. MULDER This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world. He is the Wise who... CRISTIANE SERRUYA As far as I can tell 15 pages with quotes, it's a lot of... DEYTH BANGER It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there do... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Hopefully the tabloid thing has peaked. It doesn't seem to be as big (to us) as what people might th... ALEX TURNER People don't have to donate money, ... Money would be fine, but it also could be food or clothes or ... CHRIS DUHON Most people who are successful don't keep their money. One of the rarest things in the world is ... SOPHIE B. HAWKINS The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real. FRANCIS HERBERT HEDGE There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of... ALAN GREENSPAN As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sw... RICK PERRY So few people understand about anything. MARGARET ATWOOD The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The genius of the (original) novel is they were the mother and father of what Atlanta was going to b... PAT CONROY You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." <... PHILIP K. DICK A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that... KAREN ALLEN She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Some people just aren't as sensitive to the environment as others. The environment is one of our pre... BILL CARLSON Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people. Empa... C. JOYBELL C. Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal ANDREW FAIRCHILD One of the most important things I have found is that no one
school of thought has all of the answer... LEWIS N. ROE The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS The world of a writer is a world of imagination reduced to letters SOTONYE ANGA In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA DOOR MONEY” To focus on door money means one is paying so much attention to the amount of money th... CARLOS WALLACE Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separ... KATHRYN STOCKETT Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo... DANIEL OJEDA The thing people need to realize is that there is a carry over from year to year in utility money. T... GLENN THOMAS Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes! DEYTH BANGER The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil... CHRISTINA ENGELA Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made... NICHOLAS SPARKS Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw ou... C. JOYBELL C. Civilization’ is just a word! There is a touch of indirect ‘racism’ in it. It unjustly means t... MD. ZIAUL HAQUE The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people. HARVEY S. FIRESTONE The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down fro... UDONIS HASLEM In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
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MARGARET SPELLINGS My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special educat... MARGARET SPELLINGS And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particular... MARGARET SPELLINGS Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they ... MARGARET ATWOOD My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling r... MARGARET WALKER A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. MARGARET ATWOOD If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schiz... MARGARET ATWOOD If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage. MARGARET THATCHER The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many... MARGARET ATWOOD A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. MARGARET THATCHER I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good w... MARGARET THATCHER An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. MARGARET ATWOOD If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. MARGARET ATWOOD Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space be... MARGARET ATWOOD I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did,... MARGARET ATWOOD When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely. MARGARET ATWOOD You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come wit... MARGARET ATWOOD Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no yo... MARGARET ATWOOD Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do ... MARGARET ATWOOD So you are a vampire." "I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a commo... MARGARET STOHL Don't let the bastards grind you down. MARGARET ATWOOD When you can't tell the difference between your own pleasure and your pain then you're an addict. MARGARET ATWOOD Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls. MARGARET HEFFERNAN Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts. MARGARET FULLER Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service, they should not be accepted, voluntar... MARGARET MEAD I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who a... MARGARET CHO At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials,... MARGARET CHAN Some people think that going on a caravan holiday is a slightly more upscale version of camping. Let... MARGARET BECKETT Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. MARGARET HEFFERNAN The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but ... MARGARET ATWOOD People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you... MARGARET THATCHER