One day I sat thinking, almost in despair; a hand fell on my shoulder and a voice said reassuringly; 'Cheer up, things could be worse' So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse


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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed...
C. L. R. JAMES
As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
C. L. R. JAMES
Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
C. L. R. JAMES
There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes...
DR. JAMES C. DOBSON
In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that...
C. L. R. JAMES
Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestatio...
C. L. R. JAMES
The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth ce...
C. L. R. JAMES
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't li...
DR. JAMES C. DOBSON
Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose ...
DR. JAMES C. DOBSON
Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to g...
DR. JAMES C. DOBSON
I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
DR. JAMES C. DOBSON
Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significan...
DR. JAMES C. DOBSON
I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hu...
C. L. R. JAMES
It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
C. L. R. JAMES
I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
C. L. R. JAMES
The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life to...
C. L. R. JAMES
What is truth" I was asked. "Truth is neither good nor bad. Neither evil nor pure. It just is." That...
C. JOYBELL C.
There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly ...
C. JOYBELL C.
The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for,...
C. JOYBELL C.
Pink is a beautiful color, because it is one of the colors that the sun makes at twilight and in the...
C. JOYBELL C.
The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to hap...
C C COLTON
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest ma...
C C COLTON
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
C. C. COLTON
There are types of people who want to have leverage over other people's lives. For no other reason t...
C. JOYBELL C.
There are those whose primary ability is to spin wheels of manipulation. It is their second skin and...
C. JOYBELL C.
The goodness of a person is normally judged based upon how they act towards those whom they consider...
C. JOYBELL C.
Just because a person is attractive/beautiful, this does not mean it is okay to villainize them. We ...
C. JOYBELL C.
What kind of a world do we live in, when the good are taken advantage of by the bad, while the bad h...
C. JOYBELL C.
I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves,...
C. JOYBELL C.
Man is not defiled by his impurities. It is the other man pointing out his impurities to him, whom h...
C. JOYBELL C.
As you go about your daily life, you will encounter many lemons. Sour expressions, sour attitudes, s...
C. JOYBELL C.
When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or...
C. JOYBELL C.
Some people come and go and are forgotten. But there are other people who share a part in our destin...
C. JOYBELL C.
I have met so many heartbroken men. It's a catastrophe. Women are easily overcome by the process tha...
C. JOYBELL C.
For some people, “the point of no return” begins at the very moment their souls become aware of ...
C. JOYBELL C.
Love is like a good cake; you never know when it's coming, but you'd better eat it when it does!
C. JOYBELL C.
Maybe we shouldn't be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you c...
C. JOYBELL C.
You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your...
C. JOYBELL C.
Sometimes the things that are felt the most are expressed between two souls over the distance and ov...
C. JOYBELL C.
I don't understand dating.. and the other things that people do.. all I know is that you ought to fi...
C. JOYBELL C.
It should be a privilege to be able to say "I love you" to someone. It shouldn't be something people...
C. JOYBELL C.
Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs t...
C. JOYBELL C.
I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all th...
C. JOYBELL C.
If I am to be fallen into love, I will. And if as a result I will appear to be stupid, disillusioned...
C. JOYBELL C.
In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am alr...
C. JOYBELL C.
She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somew...
C. JOYBELL C.
They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of t...
C. JOYBELL C.
You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, al...
C. JOYBELL C.
We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matte...
C. JOYBELL C.
You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have...
C. JOYBELL C.
I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. ...
C. JOYBELL C.
There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- ...
C. JOYBELL C.
There is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not determined by marriage cer...
C. JOYBELL C.