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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy
Stupidity
Pain
Anesthetic
Egotism
The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.
Jonathan Kozol
Work
Trouble
Rich
Pain
Ghetto
Machines
Anesthetic
Oblivion
Purposes
Excellent
Schools
Accepted
Up
Historically
Privilege
Children
Achieving
Suburban
Then
Produced
Use
Who
Grow
Grow Up
Servants
What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.
Tyler Perry
Wisdom
Character
Soul
Jokes
Heart
People
Drop
Stage
Other
Laugh
Characters
Anesthetic
Able
Over
Making
Real
Issues
Been
Years
Heart And Soul
Real Issues
Get
While
Use
Found
Pearls
With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.
Saul Bellow
Good
You
Confidence
Surgeon
Feeling
Anesthetic
Someone
Like
Accept
Fallen
Get
Hands
Novelist
Whom
The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
David Foster Wallace
Loneliness
Desperate
Anesthetic
Against
Interesting
Interesting Thing
Why
Thing
Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.
Al Goldstein
Work
Sex
Own
Married
Anesthetic
Like
Without
Canal
Being
Root
Your
Awake