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Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#available #does #dying #even #former

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#constituting #everywhere #formerly #great #great silence

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#does #link #merely #new #oneself

A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#class #country #educated #greatest #greatest country

Students of America, working families of America: President Obama will not turn his back on you. ↗

— Lincoln Chafee

#back #families #his #obama #president

And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now. ↗

— Ahmed Chalabi

#chance #democracy #dream #give #grateful

First of all, I don't think that America is truly prepared for a biological or a chemical attack. However, we are moving in the right direction. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#attack #biological #chemical #direction #first

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#american film #american writers #directors #every #every time

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#cow #grazing #mere #must #pleasure

But--" she tried not to wail, but her voice crept upward, anyway "--I want to go HOME--" "And I want a palace and a handsome, young prince who has an unnatural lust for old women, and neither of us are going to get what we crave, so let's concentrate on what we can do something about!" Granny said sharply. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#bella #granny #humor #mercedes-lackey #beauty