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Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.

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• Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Want
  • Like
  • Musicals

• Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • People
  • World
  • Famous

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Weird
  • Find
  • Princess

• The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Night
  • Know
  • Mystery

• There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Strong
  • Never
  • Jealousy

• Almost every evening in their common early-Cubist years, in Paris, either I went to Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's paintings. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was. a remark of Picasso to Françoise Gilot, December 1908

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Done
  • Paris
  • Canvas

• This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.

  

  James Brown
  • Mind
  • Together
  • Peace

• I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Life
  • Father
  • House

• Tell me he’s not talking to Brandon,” Claire said. “Um… Ok. He’s not talking to Brandon.” “You’re lying.” “Yeah. He’s talking to Brandon. Look, let Shane do his thing, okay? He’s not as stupid as he looks, mostly.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Stupid
  • Conversation
  • Brandon

• It gets to the point where you're hot, you're hot, and when you're not, you're not. It's so true. I have to slow down soon.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • True
  • Point
  • Hot

• We're weird roman candles burning bright at both ends. At the end of the road's where this story begins. Where the green of the gulf meets the blue of the sea. What makes it all happen is still a mystery to me. But those crazy days and those crazy ways, we never want to undo. We'll be together, now and forever.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Together
  • Crazy
  • Forever

• I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room--a complete mess--so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Way
  • Rooms
  • Mess

• That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • World
  • Problems
  • Show Business

• One thing we know for sure is that change is certain. Progress is not. Progress depends on the choices we make today for tomorrow and on whether we meet our challenges and protect our values.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Choices
  • Progress
  • Challenges

• One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judaeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Democracy
  • American Dream
  • Declaration of Independence

• Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Society
  • Terrible
  • Individuals

• If consumers are asked to make greater sacrifices than industry, this country is going to have its greatest shortage of all -- a shortage of consumers.

  

  Betty Furness
  • Industry
  • Consumers
  • Sacrifices

• If enough individuals are full of despair and anger in their hearts, there will be violence in the streets. If enough individuals are full of greed and fear in their hearts, there will be racism and oppression in society. You can't remove the external social symptoms without treating the corresponding internal personal diseases...Pope Francis draws our attention to the 'invisible thread' of the market, which he describes as 'the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature.' This mentality generates inequality, which in turn generates 'a violence which no police, military, or intelligence resources can control'...changed individuals cross racial, religious, ethnic, class or political boundaries to build friendships. These friendship work like sutures, healing wounds in the social fabric. They 'humanize the other,' making it harder for groups to stereotype or scapegoat. They create little zones where the beloved community is manifest...They help people envision the common good--a situation where all are safe, free, and able to thrive. As my friend Shane Claiborne says, our problem isn't that rich people don't care about poor people; it's that all too often, rich people don't know any poor people. Knowing one another makes interpersonal change and reconciliation possible.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Society
  • Violence
  • Racism

• Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.

  

  Epes Sargent
  • Individuals
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  • Republics