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Quote by Ernest Hemingway
The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And

The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded. – Ernest Hemingway

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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. – Ernest Hemingway

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The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff… – James Ellroy

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The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasnt the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. – John Lennon

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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part. – Jerry Garcia

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Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all thats going on right now in a big way. – Bob Dylan

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Its frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You cant assume the responsibility for everything you do –or dont do. – Simone de Beauvoir

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I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. Its how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy. – Ari Graynor

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It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on. – Michael Behe

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Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. – Howard Zinn

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