In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
My grandparents and my mother were marvelous people, but they were not particularly demonstrative in their love. It was teachers who were… — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
Historically, the idea that you take something novel and you break it has been seen as the ultimate rejection of Enlightenment values,… — Sheila Jasanoff Copy Share Image
I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood. When somebody called me a 'dirty little Guinea', there was only one thing to do-break… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I'll tell you this. Leaving that which you love breaks your heart open. But you will find a jewel inside, and this… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
Politicians have a lot to deal with these days. It's a different world. You know who I feel bad for? Arab Americans… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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I only had a three-week break from the beginning of Bent, so I went from one thing to the next. I got… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
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You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I figured I could read more than five pages tonight since I'd been deprived for the last couple of days. When I… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
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In the Washington soft money game, big business and big labor are accomplices working together to protect the mushy middle of big… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Record labels collude with some of the radio stations, and the radio stations have their play lists, dependent upon what they call… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like L.A. It's like a mini break. For a writer, it's hilarious. Like the food. Where I come from, we eat… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
Elections, especially of representatives and counselors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more… — John Adams Copy Share Image
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Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
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In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, "This sickness can't take… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
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I'm one of the lucky directors that pretty much every movie I've done has started a franchise. But I never think this… — Louis Leterrier Copy Share Image
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