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Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#close #communicate #cruel #felt #loneliness

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#because #believed #claus #come #dark

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#loss #much #possession #riches #their

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#belief #certain #certain things #explained #know

Now here's what I'm saying: I've always believed that every other month we hear about compromisation of bank records, I think that's the CIA and the FBI. Now let me tell you why I'm saying this. I don't believe no insignificant pip-squeak is going to be able to pull this off month after month and we can't find out what's going on. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#about #after #always #bank #believe

So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#falsehood #law #ornament #pretense #religion

Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy. ↗

— William Greider

#continue #cynicism #democracy #genuine #i

So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less. ↗

— Ruth Ann Minner

#good #i #less #like #minutes

I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career. ↗

— Adrian Grenier

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Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#literary-criticism #pornography #religion #sex #religion