Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed … - Margaret Atwood

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When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

Margaret Atwood

Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every time he read them out loud.

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Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

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When we're young, we like happy endings. When we're a little older, we think happy endings are unrealistic and so we prefer bad but credible endings. When we're older still, we realize happy endings aren't so bad after all.

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If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.

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Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.

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I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

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Linda Ronstadt

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

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Ted Nugent

When we learn from our cause and effect we increase our positives, we chip away and hopefully eliminate our negatives, so we can be beneficial to everyone else. It's not about being good for me, it's about being the best that I can be so I can be a good husband, father, and neighbor.

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Audrey Hepburn

. . . perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all share the plight and embarrassment of having so many suffering children. We are united by our neglect, our abuse, our absence of love. Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?

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Jenna Dewan

There's a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you're ready to have this baby.

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Chip Pitts

The ultimate cause of the October Crisis was the ideological embrace of Milton Friedman's warped but still dominant view that "the only social responsibility of business is to make a profit for its shareholders," and until that socially and economically counterproductive - and empirically, legally and ethically inaccurate - view is corrected, we will continue to have the increasing and more intense crises of global capitalism that we have seen recur with ever greater frequency over the past forty years. Sadly but clearly, the lessons have still not been learned.

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