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“How do the angels get to sleep / When the Devil leaves his porch light on?”

“I don't have a drinking problem ‘cept when I can't get a drink.”

“If I exorcise my devils, well, my angels may leave too.”

“What's he building in there? We have a right to know.”

“I collaborate with my wife on the songs, and every aspect of it, really— composing, and arranging, and recording, all that business. We have a rhythm and a way of working it. It's kind of like borrowing the same ten bucks from somebody over and over again. But when you live together, it makes it a lot easier, the pay back.”

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"There's a kind of racism in the south that is really so steadfast and true that I almost kind of begrudgingly, you know, admire it in a way, and that is that there are segregated graveyards. That just…"

— David Cross

Entertainment1964

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"Nobody can ever quite say what's wrong exactly. But they all know it's evil. They all know 'corporate' is a dirty word. And if somebody's having fun or getting rich - disgusting! Evil! And it's always…"

— Jonathan Franzen

Literature1959

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"The rapid change in many aspects of morality, even in the last century, also suggests that much of its “innateness” comes not from evolution but from learning. That’s because evolutionary change simpl…"

— Jerry Coyne

Science1949

#Human Nature

"Legal rules are to be judged by the structure of incentives they establish and the consequences of people altering their behavior in response to those incentives"

— David Friedman

Entertainment1970

#Human Nature