In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout. ~Irish Proverb
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white. ~Valerie Simpson
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"He's just a little unbalanced and lonely." He put his arms around my waist, frowning. "Can't he be lonely and unbalanced around someone else's girlfriend?" "I'll suggest it. ~Kiersten White
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere. ~Ryan White
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What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
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There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio; I don't know that guy. ~Bill Burr
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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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"But" is a fence over which few leap. ~German Proverb
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His rod reversed, and backward mutters of dissevering power. ~John Milton
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
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Life is half spent before one knows what life is. ~French Proverb
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Appetite comes with eating. ~French Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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