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• I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Book, Home, Thinking

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• Unless a man first finds himself, finds his own essential nature and destiny, and begins from them, all his efforts and achievements will be built only on the sand of personality, and at the first serious shock the whole structure will crumble, perhaps destroying him in its fall.

  Rodney Collin

  Fall, Destiny, Men

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• Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

  Jonny Lang

  People, Style, Done

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• Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Men, Vitality, Genius

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “Essays in Literary Interpretation”

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• On the whole I woke up in the morning and was happy to be alive.

  Art Buchwald

  Morning, Alive, Happy To Be Alive

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• It’s the whole or it’s nothing.

  Gavin Schmidt

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• The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.

  Renata Adler

  Magic, Plot

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• Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The city, of course, can wreck it. So much insomnia. So many rhythms collide. The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know.

  Renata Adler

  Love You, Sleep, Insomnia

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.7, New York Review of Books

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• I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.

  Alexander Dubcek

  Party, Thinking, Years

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• I'm young. I'm pretty. And I'm willing to burn the whole world to the ground to get what I want.

  SebastiAn

  World, Want, Young

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• I really don't know why we need a whole month dedicated to blacks. It's not like they're the only ones that suffered. I mean, what about us whites? We're the ones that have to deal with these monkeys everyday, but you don't see us demanding a whole month to ourselves.

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Everyday, Needs

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• Oh I love children, but I could never eat a whole one.

  Zach Braff

  Children, Children Love

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• The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership.

  Alexis Herman

  Leadership, Jobs, Government

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• I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army, and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war, and say to the world; 'Do your worst!'

  George Lansbury

  War, Army, Air

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• You are powerful. Sorry. Hate to be the bearer of bad news. You are. You can continue arm wrestling with yourself, or you can use both arms, your whole heart, and all your strength to wrestle with greatness. The choice is yours.

  Peter McWilliams

  Sorry, Powerful, Hate

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole community. It was only the vast fatigue which was experienced by the generation on which the multitudes of discoveries and innovations burst abruptly, imposing on it organic exigencies greatly surpassing its strength, which created favourable conditions under which these maladies could gain ground enormously, and become a danger to civilization.

  Max Nordau

  Discovery, Civilization, Hysteria

  Max Simon Nordau (1895). “Degeneration”, London, Heinemann

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• I'd like to turn the whole world on just for a moment. Just for a moment.

  Edie Sedgwick

  World, Moments, Turns

  "Fictional character: Susan Superstar". "Ciao Manhattan", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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• Fashion as a whole is a farce, completely. The people behind it are perverted, the styles are created by freaked out people, just natural weirdos. I know this because I worked with all those people while I was modeling.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Fashion, People, Style

  "Edie : American Girl". Book by Jean Stein and George Plimpton, 1982.

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• I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on trifling pretexts or none at all, and carried on without any reference of law, Divine or human.

  Hugo Grotius

  Christian, War, Fighting

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• I’ve played on literally every brand of US drums out there, and I’ve finally found my home. I’ve been looking for drums like these my whole life. True American hot rod custom kits. From the look and sound to the service and attention, it’s good to now be a part of the SJC family.

  Tre Cool

  Home, True Life, Looks

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• I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.

  Grace Slick

  Mushrooms, San Francisco, Community

  Bopgraphy/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that isn't all we need to do! Attracting users to free software is not the whole job, just the first step.

  Richard Stallman

  Jobs, People, Today

  "Why 'Free Software' is better than 'Open Source'". www.gnu.org. 1998.

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• We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever.

  Mona Simpson

  Forever, World, Knows

  Mona Simpson (2014). “Casebook: A novel”, p.26, Vintage

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• A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Responsibility, Organization, Different

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• Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

  Alan Perlis

  Soap Bubbles, Software, Discarded

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