They said the stench was horrible. Food on the stove was a couple of days old. There were dirty diapers strewn all over the whole house. The living conditions were pretty poor.

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MAJ. SUSAN DOWSETT The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
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THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY

And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
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No Face... a pe...
DEYTH BANGER The mindset of the poor;I need more college degrees to be able to make impact in life.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The conditions were horrible, but we all had a lot of fun.
JOANN BELL It's not fit for humans to be living in those conditions. They turned the water off. People were goi...
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JEFF MULL To the poor investment means "my money will depart from me forever.
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BRUCE LARNER

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PATRICK CLARK I was happy with all the players. They all had a couple of issues, but in general, they played prett...
MARK SODERBERG

Then none was for a party;
Then all were for the state;
Then the great man helped the poor...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY

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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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that even the most casual of compliments can be given that extra little touch that women adore.
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HLONIM

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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There was garbage all over. There were stains all over the floor.
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THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT All they said was plan on adverse conditions,
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To my wonderful readers:
Sorry about that last cliff-hanger.
Well, no, not really. HAHA...
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BETH BULLAMORE This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it wer...
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LINDA GENTILE It took 17 hours to collect all the bodies, many of which were mutilated and strewn over a vast area...
TIBOR DOBSON We were living in the same conditions. The people there were doing the best job they could. It comes...
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ALAN GOULD Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN He said the stench of dead bodies was terrible.
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C. JOYBELL C. I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
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JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
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STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
KATHERINE VUCICEVIC No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro...
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SUSAN SONTAG The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty -- of the indefinite expansion ...
SUSAN SONTAG Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a s...
SUSAN SONTAG Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
SUSAN SONTAG Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ...
SUSAN SONTAG One person's constant is another person's variable.
SUSAN GERHART Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
SUSAN SONTAG Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it gro...
SUSAN COOLIDGE In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.
SUSAN SONTAG A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains o...
SUSAN SONTAG Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest sub...
SUSAN SONTAG What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
SUSAN SONTAG What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full hu...
SUSAN SONTAG Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative...
SUSAN SONTAG I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAG Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in ou...
SUSAN SONTAG Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style -- but a particular kind of style. It is love of the...
SUSAN SONTAG Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon...
SUSAN ERTZ Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of men...
SUSAN SONTAG Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion.
SUSAN SHAUGHNESSY Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms,...
SUSAN SONTAG Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits.
SUSAN SONTAG We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting...
SUSAN SONTAG A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated sp...
SUSAN SONTAG Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence,...
SUSAN SONTAG AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It ...
SUSAN SONTAG AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder...
SUSAN SONTAG Always think of your customers as suppliers first. Work closely with them, so they can supply you wi...
SUSAN MARTHALLER I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a pa...
SUSAN SONTAG Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism
SUSAN SONTAG The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us...
SUSAN SONTAG Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone n...
SUSAN SONTAG The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion ...
SUSAN SONTAG Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks differe...
SUSAN CHEEVER What we need is to use what we have.
SUSAN SONTAG Sanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAG Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier.
SUSAN RABIN It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
SUSAN SONTAG In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized,...
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They said the stench was horrible. Food on the stove was a couple of days old. There were dirty diapers strewn all over the whole house. The living conditions were pretty poor.

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