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    Clarence Darrow
    “Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”
    ― Clarence Darrow, The Story of My Life
    tags: classic-insult, death, determinism, free-will, humor, instinct, personality, science, temperament, tendencies, urges
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: inspirational, optimism
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
    ― Winston Churchill
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: apocryphal, attributed-no-source, classic-insult, drinking, drunkenness, retort
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: fanaticism, zealot
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: success
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: military
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “The price of greatness is responsibility.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: inspiration, responsibility
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: language
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “In War: Resolution,
    In Defeat: Defiance,
    In Victory: Magnanimity
    In Peace: Good Will.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War: The Nobel Prize-Winning History of World War II
    tags: defeat, defiance, good-will, magnanimity, peace, resolution, victory, war
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    Nelson Algren
    “When I burn please bury me deep
    Somewhere on West Division Street
    Put a bottle beneat' my head
    'n a bottle beneat' my feet”
    ― Nelson Algren, Never Come Morning
    tags: chicago
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    Nelson Algren
    “Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.”
    ― Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make
    tags: chicago, city, october, spring
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    Nelson Algren
    “Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.”
    ― Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side
    tags: sex, troubles
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    Nelson Algren
    “... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.”
    ― Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make
    tags: chicago, divided, heart, urban
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    Nelson Algren
    “Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.”
    ― Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make
    tags: chicago, cities, love, lovely
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: appreciation, life, speed, time
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    William Shakespeare
    “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Hamlet
    tags: dreams, supernatural
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    Chris Rock
    “I used to work at McDonald's making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you minimum wage? You know what your boss was trying to say? "Hey if I could pay you less, I would, but it's against the law.”
    ― Chris Rock
    tags: humor-inspirational
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    John Rogers
    “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

    [Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
    ― John Rogers
    tags: atlas-shrugged, ayn-rand, books, children-s-literature, education, fantasy, jrr-tolkien, life-changing, lord-of-the-rings, reading, real-world
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    Toni Morrison
    “Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.”
    ― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
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