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What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction? ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#destruction #good #help #literature #much

An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#abundant #body #bulk #city #conveyed

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels. ↗

— Jon Corzine

#been #congress #current #failure #hour

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do. ↗

— Richard Steele

#any #care #endless #frivolous #minds

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#allow #back #beings #children #come

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#american #anything #because #bread #earth

Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it's the tone, the context, where those words are aimed, and in whose company they are uttered. Of course murderers and victims use the same words, but I never read the words utopia, or beauty, or tenderness in police descriptions. Do you know that the Argentinean dictatorship burnt The Little Prince ? And I think they were right to do so, not because I do not love The Little Prince , but because the book is so full of tenderness that it would harm any dictatorship. ↗

— Juan Gelman

#the-little-prince #words #beauty

Would you like to borrow a pair of my panties to wave around at the next Council meeting to get the point across?” His eyes flashed. “Got any to spare?” I could’ve picked somebody rational. But no, I had to fall in love with this arrogant idiot. Come to the Keep with me, be my princess. Mourn me when your crazy dad kills me. Yeah, right. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#funny #kate #love #funny

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#child #clothes #developed #eight #even

If you have no faith, you've lost your battle. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#faith #lost #you #your