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I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into. ↗

— Jonathan Frakes

#american #american literature #baseball #biographies #condition

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. ↗

— Anatole France

#accomplish #act #also #believe #dream

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. ↗

— Anatole France

#fate #gifts #having #i #life

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation. ↗

— Anatole France

#frightens #his #madman #most #sane

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. ↗

— Anatole France

#cash #credit #only #pay #poor

I just talk a lot, that's the problem. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#just #lot #problem #talk

Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#consider #humane #humans #inflicted #property

We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#animal #because #eat #fur #good

These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up. ↗

— Charles Manson

#come #help #i #just #knives

There is something else at work here that is beyond me - and that is Laura. She has a life of her own. There is a magic in her. The muse is in her. And I'm lucky to have her in my life. ↗

— Genie Francis

#else #her #here #i #laura