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«Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.»
«Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.»
«No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills.»
Author: Jean Harlow (Actress) | About: Money | Keywords: bills, expects
«More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations»
«A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.»
«Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.»
Author: Minna Antrim | About: Experience | Keywords: bills, terrific
«If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.»
«Dreading that climax of all human ills, / The inflammation of his weekly bills.»
«A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten»
«It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: bills

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