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"Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!"
"From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire."
"Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas."
"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."
"But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for."
"I have a short attention span."
"I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong."
"I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me."
"People who have nothing better to do than talk about my hair color have no lives."
""I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others.""
"It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness."
"Sometimes, you like to let the hair do the talking!"
"I didn't wash today. I wasn't dirty. If I'm not dirty, I don't wash. Some weeks I don't have to shower at all. I just groom my three basic areas: teeth, hair, and asshole. And to save time, I use the same brush."
"Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost."
"When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn."
"I put on your sequined ball gown and I checked the mirror there. Why, I looked like Cindy Crawford, but with much more body hair."
"The hair of his face, on the contrary, carroty and flaming, resembled a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line of the lip; while, no matter how close he shaved, fiery metallic gleams passed, when he moved his head, over the surface of his cheeks."
"There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity."
"Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair."
"I think hair gel was invented to make it easier to identify assholes from a distance."
