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I hope that Live Earth ends global warming the same way the Live Aid ended world poverty.

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You can't beat white people, you can only knock them out.

There's black people, and there's niggers. And niggers have got to go. Every time black people wanna have a good time, ign'ant-ass niggers fuck it up.

Chris Rock: Bring the Pain‎ (1996)

You can't be happy that fire cooks your food and be mad it burns your fingertips.

You won't be able to take your eyes off the next four presenters: Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz.

Our next presenter is the first woman to ever breast-feed an Apple – Gwyneth Paltrow.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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