"Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it."

Young, Andrew on virtue   

"It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it."

Hoffer, Eric on immigration
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"I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?"

Pfizer, Sydney on language   

"The eyes have one language everywhere."

Herbert, George on language   

"Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on language   

"One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland --and no other."

Cioran, E. M. on language   

"To have another language is to possess a second soul."

Charlemagne on language
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"The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?"

Schumpeter, Joseph A. on parents and parenting   

"It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on upbringing   

"Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years."

Powell, Anthony on parents and parenting
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"In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent."

Marquis, Don on parents and parenting
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"A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does."

Hershey, Lewis B on adulthood
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"Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist."

Levine, Michael on parents and parenting
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"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent."

Jung, Carl on influence   

"There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?"

Ehrenreich, Barbara on language   

"How many languages are there in the world? How about 5 billion! Each of us talks, listens, and thinks in his/her own special language that has been shaped by our culture, experiences, profession, personality, mores and attitudes. The chances of us meeting someone else who talks the exact same language is pretty remote."

Unknown, Source on language   

"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests"

Vidal, Gore on language
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"There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to Americanize him."

Cooley, Charles Horton on immigration   

"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."

Woolf, Virginia on women
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"As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports."

Hobsbawm, E. J. on racism   

"All of life is a foreign country."

Kerouac, Jack on life
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"Should a nation which attacks and occupies foreign territory in the face of United Nations disapproval be allowed to impose conditions on its own withdrawal?"

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on uncategorised   

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."

Johnson, Samuel on integrity
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"The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own."

De Delloy on nations   

"Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language."

Woolf, Virginia on translation
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"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

Washington, Booker T. on language
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"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself."

Walcott, Derek on language
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"If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on language
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"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on travel   

"Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it."

Morley, Christopher on life
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"If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you're crazy. It can fix you so you can't play nothing or sing nothing."

Holiday, Billie on drugs
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"The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?"

Lennon, John on drugs
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"The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it."

Lennon, John on drugs
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"It is in the interests of our society to promote those things that take the edge off, keep us busy with our fixes, and keep us slightly numbed out and zombie like. In this way our modern consumer society itself functions as an addict."

Schaef, Anne W. on drugs   

"It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know."

Townsend, Peter on drugs   

"A drug is neither moral nor immoral -- it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole."

Zappa, Frank on drugs
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"The only way around is through."

Frost, Robert on achievement
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"The journey is the reward."

Proverb, Chinese on achievement
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"Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine, jiggling your knees blankly in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain."

Ginsberg, Allen on drugs
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