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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.


Anatole France
Don't get me wrong - what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us.
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A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.


Jose Saramago
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What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.
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Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.
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I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.


Anthony Minghella
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If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.
Joel Salatin
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We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill
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Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.


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I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a good thing. I think it's nice to rise to the occasion, to be kind and considerate, and have self control.
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In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.
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A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had not been free to show my real feeling, to voice my true thoughts, my submission had bred bitterness and anger. And there were nearly ten million others who had submitted with equal anger and bitterness.
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Let us not act out of fear and misunderstanding, but out of the values of inclusion, diversity, and regard for all that make our country great.
Loretta Lynch
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May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!


Henry David Thoreau
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One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
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It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.


Jill Scott
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Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.
Nick Hanauer
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