#thing

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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When you do one thing, people think it's right or wrong. Maybe half-half. ↗

— Li Na

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There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#bath #communal #group #hairy #i

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#competence #encounter #exciting #exciting thing #government

Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything. ↗

— Jason Mraz

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Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound. ↗

— Jason Mraz

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If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#joy #love #need #nothing #share

Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well. ↗

— Joe Murray

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