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“When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible”

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Yoko Ono, born on February 18, 1933, is a Japanese-born American artist, musician, and peace activist. She is known for her unique artistic style and contributions to music, visual art, and performance art. more

“It seems absolutely wrong that people should be able to profit in this cynical way from an event that is designed to highlight the need for action on poverty in Africa, and for which so many artists and others are donating their valuable time for nothing [on people selling Live8 concert tickets on eBay]”

People Way Needs Should Seems Able Action Artist Poverty Events Profit Valuable Selling Concerts Cynical Tickets Highlights Ebay Valuable Time

Author:James Purnell

“We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.”

Morality Driven Cynical Exhaustion Monogamy

Book:What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

“In life you are given two ends; one to think with and the other to sit on. Your success in life depends on which end you use most. Heads you win, tails you lose.”

Thinking Two Ends Use Winning Given Loses Depends Cynical Tails Success In Life Judaism

Author:Conrad Burns

“The cynical, caustic, acid-tongued New York drama critic Addison De Witt introduces his protege/date of the moment, a bimbo date and so-called actress named Miss Casswell (Marilyn Monroe) in another very famous line: "Miss Casswell is an actress, a graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Art."”

Art Moments School Lines Missing New York Drama Critics Actresses Dramatic Graduates Cynical Introducing Acid Very Famous Caustic

Author:George Sanders

“It is not doubted, and you know it, that Ireland and all those islands which have received the faith, belong to the Church of Rome; if you wish to enter that Island, to drive vice out of it, to cause law to be obeyed and St Peter's Pence to be paid by every house, it will please us to assign it to you.”

Ifs Knows Law House Wish Causes Church Please Paid Vices Scary Islands Rome Peter Ireland Doubted St Peter

Author:Pope Adrian IV

“When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."”

People Knows Moving Turns Fall Son Scary Shakes Knowing God No Money

Author:A. A. Allen

“Moses made mistakes, Abraham made mistakes, David made mistakes, Elijah made mistakes.”

Made Mistake Scary Moses Abraham Made A Mistake Elijah

Author:Herbert W. Armstrong

“Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and hurt all the well wishers thereof.... They count as fables the holy mysteries of religion.”

Firsts Wells Hate Hurt Mystery Holy Devil Scary Englishmen Mock Fables

Author:Roger Ascham

“Any citizen who's offended ... can leave the service.”

Citizens Scary Offended

Author:John Ashcroft

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