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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#city #country #darkness #familiar #friendly

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball. ↗

— Willie Mays

#basketball #because #black #college #could

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed. ↗

— Debi Mazar

#body needs #connections #control #everybody #everyday

If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network. ↗

— John McAfee

#any #common #could #directory #domain

At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#book #energy #finish #help #i

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting. ↗

— David McCallum

#earn #enjoy #enough #famous #i

To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#always #another #business #imagine #involved

We still have not been able to move into those positions in our country that are really directing traffic among that 1 percent, and that's where women have to break through. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#among #been #break #country #directing

I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street. ↗

— Robert McCloskey

#children #clippings #come #crossing #ducks

Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that's it. ↗

— Robert McCloskey

#coming #depression #end #front #great