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“Those who manage to feel good on their own have a great privilege: they are not satisfied with just anyone.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Chi riesce a star bene da solo ha un grande privilegio: non si accontenta di chiunque.
Source: Prevale.net

“God killed me, and only after He made me into someone entirely different from the person I had been, did he call me back to life.”

Osamu Dazai book The Setting Sun

Source: The Setting Sun

“The problem is not only with what’s right and wrong but the problem is with who decides about what’s right and wrong.”

Zaman Ali (1993) Pakistani philosopher

Source: MORALITY An Individual Dilemma

““Whoever enforces equality itself brings inequality.””

Zaman Ali (1993) Pakistani philosopher

Source: MORALITY An Individual Dilemma

““Creating individuality, which creates and protects others' individualities is good.””

Zaman Ali (1993) Pakistani philosopher

Source: MORALITY An Individual Dilemma

“Reality shows that there are differences even in the poses of the completely naked body: some show vulgarity, transgression, obscenity… others simplicity, charm and elegance.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La realtà mostra che ci sono differenze anche nelle pose del corpo completamente nudo: alcune mostrano volgarità, trasgressione, oscenità... altre semplicità, fascino ed eleganza.
Source: prevale.net

“Only people with noble souls know respect. Don't let anyone else interact with the beauty of your person.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Solo persone con un animo nobile conoscono il rispetto. Non permettere a nessun altro di interagire con la bellezza della tua persona.
Source: prevale.net

“The enemy is us.”

Jeff Bridges (1949) American actor, singer-songwriter and producer

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37195094

“I am the villain in my own life.”

Jeff Bridges (1949) American actor, singer-songwriter and producer

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37195094

“While they all fall in love with her smile she waits for one who will fall in love with her scars.”

Unknown author

“Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. With the best leaders when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say, "We have done this ourselves.”

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…

Only the final bold section is connected to Laozi (see Ch. 17 of Tao Te Ching above). The origin of the added first section is unclear.
Misattributed

“George Bush is not my neighbor.”

Howard Dean (1948) American political activist

http://news.myway.com/politics/article/id/38007%7Cpolitics%7C01-12-2004::07:12%7Creuters.html

“And the reason we're going to win the nomination is because of you. Because soon or later, all Americans are going to learn what you've already learned; that the biggest lie told by people like me to people like you at election time is that, "If you vote for me, I'm going to solve all your problems." The truth is, the power to change this country is in your hands, not mine.”

Howard Dean (1948) American political activist

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/27/elec04.prez.dean.transcript/

“I wish someone would just start Fly At Your Own Risk Airlines. How 'bout that? You can have your hair gel, you can have your lighter, you can have a gun, how bout that? You can show up at the gate five minutes before the plane leaves, and pay in cash, like in the good ol' 1980s.”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

The Decider (21 July 2007)

“We're so inconsistent about what we let kill ya. "Smoking? Must be eradicated. Marijuana? Zero tolerance." But there's lots of ways to kill yourself. You know what I think kills you? Stress, and being a workaholic, and never getting laid, and, uh, McDonalds, and staying mad at people, and lying for a living, and three-martini lunches, and the all-American breakfast, and whatever Elvis was doing. That's what kills you.”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

Be More Cynical (2000)

“If ketchup had 1/20th of the carcinogens in a cigarette they'd rip it off the shelves tomorrow, so the government is full of shit when they tell you that they care about you.”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

Be More Cynical (2000)

“I don't know what happens when I die, and I don't care.”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

Interview with The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/01/bill-maher-on-masturbation-and-national-security/283266/ (24 January 2014)

“As a mother, I've always thought of September as a special month, a time when we bundled our children off to school, to the warmth of an environment in which they could fulfill the promise and hope in those restless minds.”

Nancy Reagan (1921–2016) actress and first lady of the United States

Just Say No (1986)

“A historian of science is not expected to be a scientist, but he is expected to have some basic knowledge of the scientific alphabet. Similarly, a historian of Orientalism—that is to say, the work of historians and philologists—should have at least some acquaintance with the history and philology with which they were concerned.”

Edward Said (1935–2003) Professor of English and literature

Bernard Lewis, "The Question of Orientalism", The New York Review of Books, 24 June 1982

“In the life who lost his roof in exchange receives the star.”

Tom Zé (1936) Brazilian songwriter, composer

In " Só (Solidão) http://www.tomze.com.br/pestudandoosamba.htm#3b", of the album " Estudando o Samba http://www.tomze.com.br/pestudandoosamba.htm" <br class="br">Music

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