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"Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to."
Quote by -Carson McCullers
"It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated."
Quote by -Carson McCullers
"When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?"
Quote by -Oliver Goldsmith
"Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime."
Quote by -John Ruskin
"Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make."
Quote by -John Ruskin
"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."
Quote by -John Ruskin
"The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced."
Quote by -John Ruskin
"No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art."
Quote by -John Ruskin
"Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."
Quote by -Ambrose Bierce
"Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of."
Quote by -Ambrose Bierce
"A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind."
Quote by -Thomas Paine
"Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it."
Quote by -Thomas Paine
"I can't worry about what other people are saying about me. At the end of the day, it's just their opinions, but if I said I don't hear it, or it doesn't bother me a little bit, I'd be lying to you."
Quote by -Carmelo Anthony
"Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career."
Quote by -Dale Carnegie
"Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough."
Quote by -Cameron Diaz
"We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way."
Quote by -Buzz Aldrin
"I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10."
Quote by -Dean Smith
"Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do."
Quote by -Dawn French
"I was a smart-ass, born and raised. This had been my curse and would continue to be so."
Quote by -David Sedaris
"I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself."
Quote by -David Sedaris
“If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“Certainly a visitor from Mars descending upon a colony of birth-injured cripples, dwarfs and hunchbacks...could not deduce what they should have been. But then let us not study cripples, but the closest thing we can get to whole, healthy men. In them, we find qualitative differences, a different system of motivation, emotion, value, thinking and perceiving. In a certain sense, only the saints are mankind. All the rest are cripples.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.”
Quote by -Adam Smith