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- It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.
- Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary
- And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
- Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- I'll tell you, too, that's starting to depress me about UFO's, about the fact that they cross galaxies, or wherever they come from to visit us, and always end up in places like Fife, Alabama. Maybe these are not super-intelligent beings, man.
- Bill Hicks, Comedy routine
- I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don't want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily- digestible garbage. This is rock and roll. I want to be a rock and roll star! Rock and roll is about shaking things up, making people act and react. That's what I do.
- Marilyn Manson (1969 - )
- People don't start wars, governments do.
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
- Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat.
- Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
- Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
- You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government.
- Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
- Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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