“Sad to hear of Paul Scholes retirement! One of the best midfielders to grace the Premiership! Idolised him for years! Legend.”
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“Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.”
“Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and for war as well?...It would have been so much nicer just to sail about, with here and there a port and a bit of land to stretch one's legs on, buy a few books and get a change of cooking for a while.”
“The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.”
“Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out.”
“When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.”
“...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf and insensate as vegetables tossed upon a vast garbage pile to rot.”
“Death is just the last scene of the last act.”
“A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.”
“Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.”
“I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.”
“Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.”
“Alien's a great one. That's a scary movie.”
“It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still.”
“The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable price, but no one mentioned that the result usually tasted like the stuffing inside of a teddy bear.”
“In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal.”
“To deny being lovers in order to gain something.That can result in a much worse situation than one can imagine.”
“Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.”
“Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are.”
“All my life I have hated and despised alto! ... From a boy it has affected me very strangely. That's why I hate Sunday. People will sing alto on Sunday that would never dream of singing it any other time.”