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I'm a better musician now, and I rarely practice because age has taught me the value of economy. And I think I'm… — James McBride Copy Share Image
How can we feel our need of His help, or our dependence on Him, or our debt to Him, or the nature… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I'm sure I'll find some use for the dress before summer."Kavill nodded, and closed his thick ledger. "Do let me know if… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages the king offered protection to his subjects in return for their loyalty, and the subjects were doubly protected,… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
Creation has the truth written all over it - the age of the universe, the history of the world - but nine-tenths… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
I remember liking to write stories pretty early on. In fourth or fifth grade, they would give us the beginning of a… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . .… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The main difficulty is finding an idea that really excites me. We live in an age when miracles are no longer miracles,… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Aging happy and well, instead of sad and sick, is at least under some personal control. We have considerable control over our… — George Vaillant Copy Share Image
TRIAD: Three separate highways intersect at a place no reasonable person would ever want to go. Three lives that would have been… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
I never had a story for the sequels, for the last trilogy. That's not really part of the plan at this point,… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
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Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
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We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to introduce formal instruction at anearly… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
There's always a handful of 40-year-old dudes. I don't know why that is exactly. I don't know if it's like my looks… — Lydia Loveless Copy Share Image
The people who I grew up making music with, we've all grown up and become successful in different ways. My manager supported… — Skrillex Copy Share Image
Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word 'inclusion.' And I think this is a time of great… — Ginni Rometty Copy Share Image
Going to Watford at such a young age and leaving everyone behind and being around new people was very different for me.… — Jadon Sancho Copy Share Image
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Let's remind ourselves that offering an opportunity for somebody to register to vote at the Department of Motor Vehicles has been required… — Audie Cornish Copy Share Image
One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them.… — Michael Aspel Copy Share Image
In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
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It was entirely due to my mother [a devout Buddhist] and her kindness and perseverance that the family was saved from utter… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Age is as much an asset for character players as it is for good wine. Human experiences, both good and bad, leave… — Strother Martin Copy Share Image
If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It was my father who - after, at age 15, I had attempted unsuccessfully to drive the family car using a 'borrowed'… — H. Robert Horvitz Copy Share Image
For though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The United States will rightfully go on deploring human rights excesses in the Soviet Union. And it is hardly likely Americans will… — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
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