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I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Do not forget that feeling you get when something bad happens and the first person you want to tell is your best… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded…We may say that we shall not… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
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Religion grows with the intelligence of man, but all religions of the past and probably all of the future will sooner or… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
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It's not always expected of filmmakers to do stereotyped stories. But one has to be willing to travel to festivals and hook… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
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Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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Gauntlets are the stuff of every life, but when you learn young how to pick them up, how to work them against… — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
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Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,' he said slowly, 'likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last… — Anonymous Copy Share Image