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I think that people dont know how to do anything anymore. My fathe

I think that people dont know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, I know how to hire someone. – Walter Mosley

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I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war. – Walter Mosley

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When you deal with a person whos experiencing dementia, you can see where theyre struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how theyre trying to remember. – Walter Mosley

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I would have probably stolen cars – it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing. – Valentino Rossi

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We often attribute understanding and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions. – John Searle

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I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work. – Sheena Easton

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You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The publics faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver. – Ron Fournier

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