"Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it."

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“The class system is there to remind you that you’re just a dirty oik because you came from that side of the tracks.”

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“How can you ban language, words? How're words offensive? And why should I have to tolerate YOUR interpretation? I'm the one using the word. ASK me how I'm using it, don't TELL me. And if you don't like the way I'm using it, so what? It's my right. It's my freedom of expression. Without that, we're nothing but slaves. My language, now fuck off!!!”

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"Memory tricks, amongst other things which I’ll show you, have got me banned from a lot of Casinos in this country."

— Derren Brown

Psychology1971

#memory

"Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology... They still believe in God,…"

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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#family

"Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish."

— Walter Scott

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#death

"No way I would be a journalist. You guys have tried to kill Roger - often. But he's always come back and proved you wrong. So one thing I would not do is make the mistake of saying Roger is dead."

— Roger Federer

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#death