Quote by Thomas Mann
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I h

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. – Thomas Mann

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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I dont know where I would be without it. – Thomas Mann

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The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity. – Thomas Mann

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If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center. – Tupac Shakur

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But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital! – Stephen Covey

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I can make dressing – or stuffing. Yall call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. Its really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that. – Edie Brickell

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Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house. – Elizabeth Warren

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I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom. – Michael Bergin

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The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. – Marcel Pagnol

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Trapped by reality, freed by imagination. – Nicolas Manetta

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We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq. – Bob Graham

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