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There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed. ↗

— David Simon

#americas #being #beings #cultural #day

Whitney smacked Coop's snout while simultaneously pressing herself deeper into the couch. Coop fixed her with an unblinking ice-blue stare, gray-brown fur bristling along his spine. "Tory!" Whitney squealed. "He's going to attack!" "Maybe." I walked into the kitchen and snagged a Diet Coke from the fridge. "Try to protect your throat. ↗

— Kathy Reichs

#humor #tory #tory-brennan #whitney-dubois #diet

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. ↗

— Adam Smith

#cheerfulness #christian #course #david #dyed

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine. ↗

— Alfred E. Smith

#american people #carry #eternal #never #people

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives. ↗

— Norman Lear

#attracted #became #come #experience #humor

Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record. ↗

— Michael W. Smith

#doing #instrumental #looking #melody #power

I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#different #different ways #fan #giving #i

I was still alive. Ha! Take that kidnappers. Still alive. Maybe it was my butt that was feeding me. I always thought it was kind of round. I bet my body was eating up all the fat stores from my butt now. Yeah. See, having a big ass is a good thing. Good, good, good. They should put that in magazines. Why diet? Why stay thin? If you ever get kidnapped and left for dead, your fat ass could save your life! ↗

— Kate Brian

#brian #humor #kate #private #reed

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution. ↗

— Carl Levin

#caution #constitution #document #great #only

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#change #changes #circumstances #i #know