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• My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

  William Allen White

  Women, Inspirational Life, America

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• Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Political, May

  Speech, Nashville, Tenn., 27 Dec. 1962

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• But I think I see what these guys' problem is. You know... aside from the lack of a spine and the latent misogyny? As long as they continue to act like women are a separate species and, thus, not relate to us as HUMAN BEINGS, they'll continue to alienate the majority of us on sight or send those unfortunate souls who actually date them (Bleh!) screaming into the night.

  Sharon Cooper

  Night, Thinking, Sight

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• Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Music, Religious, Government

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• The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.

  Yehuda Berg

  Supportive, Sound, Answers

  "Certainty: A Principle of Kabbalah" by Yehuda Berg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2011.

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• Never slam a car door. According to the Westchester elite, it's a heinous crime, as heartless as kicking a puppy.

  Lisi Harrison

  Doors, Car, Kicking

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• I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or love, had really gone away. Free. It would be...heartless terror. Yes. Terrible, and... Very great. To shed your skin, every old skin, one by one and then walk away, unemcumbered, into the morning.

  Tony Kushner

  Morning, Gone Away, Justice

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.75, Theatre Communications Group

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• Heartless praise is not praise at all. It is worthless and an insult to God.

  Rick Warren

  Insult, Praise, Worthless

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

  Winston Churchill

  Conservative, Idiocy

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• Love is a sacred mystery.
  To those who love, it remains forever wordless;
  But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Love Is, Forever

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• But insensate Time is nothing if not cruel and heartless. It corrodes then destroys, so that the man you literally and figuratively looked up to with your chubby face, who scooped you up to cross the street and patted you on the head to laughter, will later look through you from a crooked hospital bed then blindly up at you while wearing makeup in a bargain casket. The people who now surround you generating warmth will disappear leaving only an empty chill; the body you own and the brain it houses will malfunction.

  Sergio De La Pava

  Laughter, Philosophy, Men

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• In the middle of a conversation, she'll frequently say something like, "Young people are heartless, they don't have any respect anymore." I nod agreement in hopes that she'll stop right there, but secretly I'm convinced that the heart is the same as it's always been; there's simply less hypocrisy, that's all. Young people aren't naturally selfish, any more than old folks are naturally wise. Your age doesn't have anything to do with whether you're sensitive or shallow; it's a question of the path your life takes.

  Susanna Tamaro

  Wise, Selfish, Heart

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• A balance is necessary in life. To achieve this we must move away from broad definitions of workplaces as functional and households as emotional. Similarly, home, the haven in a heartless world, as defined by men, cannot be used by them as an antidote to the workplace's discomforts and demands, if this means having the wife as a servicer.

  Eva Cox

  Leadership, Moving, Home

  Eva Cox (1996). “Leading Women”

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• I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

  Soleil Moon Frye

  Happiness, Laughter, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

  George Ade

  Happiness, Morning, Laughter

  Sultan of Sulu (1903) act 2, p. 63

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• While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

  Lewis Carroll

  Respect, Laughter, Exercise

  Lewis Carroll (2008). “The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.352, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I just love listening to the laughter.

  Simon Pegg

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Heart, Cutting, Men

  "The Hemingway Collection".

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• You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Voice, Trying, Weight

  Jane Hirshfield (1997). “The lives of the heart”, Perennial

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• How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

  Oscar Wilde

  Cuffs, Muffins, Way

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front seat, at my mother's silent shaking, my father's grim profile, the mournful bags under his eyes, and all the questions I might ask seemed abusive. Assault and battery, a question mark used like a club. My parents are old and fragile. I'd have to heartless to want to hurt them.

  Margaret Haddix

  Mother, Hurt, Fear

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2008). “Double Identity”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with its protection must develop its capacity for autocratic control. Thus, the "Free World" increasingly resembles a dreary string of heartless police states.

  Michael Parenti

  Police, World, Protection

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• Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.

  Ivor Novello

  Happiness, Laughter, Blessed

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• The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

  Milan Kundera

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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