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“He seems to be making you that way too - enough to tolerate people like him. And once you start tolerating them, you're going to end up being like them yourself.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell

tags: bad-company, bad-people

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“Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: authority, bad, bad-leaders, bad-people, destruction, dominance, follower, followers, gibberish, great-thoughts, kingdom, lead, leader, love, michael-bassey-johnson, path, podeposition, purity, redirection, reflectihip, rubbish, rule, thought, thoughts, true-leader, true-love, virtue, vision

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“When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

tags: bad-luck, luck, truth

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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance

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“Remember at the junior picnic, when someone whipped that dog at Jennifer's head? And Jennifer was laughing, like it was funny? Ted never copped to it, but I know he did it. I saw him. A-hole.'
Rachel shakes her head in disgust. 'She probably deals with that kind of crap every day...'
'That's it. I'm going to ask Jennifer if she wants to sit with us today... I don't like those little turds thinking they can make fun of her because she's on the list. Don't they have any respect for the fact that she's a senior? If she's with us, they wouldn't dare say anything.”
― Siobhan Vivian, The List

tags: fight, inspirational, perseverance, standing-up

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