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A little while ago I visited Omaha Beach for the second time in my life. In the intervening 26 years, nearly 20,000… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When I was secretary of state, I had to be responsible for getting a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia through the… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
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How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret. His first secret was himself. He was brother to a liar and brother to… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so… — Steve Hely Copy Share Image
Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't think for a minute that bad publicity and endless criticism don't leave their claw marks on everyone concerned. Your friends try… — Ava Gardner Copy Share Image
The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
What sets imperialism of the capitalist sort apart from other conceptions of empire is that it is the capitalist logic that typically… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
When your fight has purpose—to free you from something, to interfere on the behalf of an innocent—it has a hope of finality.… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
Who are we really? Combinations of common chemicals that perform mechanical actions for a few years before crumbling back into the original… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures.… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
[Eva Braun] went to the Nurnberg party rallies starting in 1935. She was there twice and stayed at the Hotel Deutscher Hof,… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“You, in turn, observe yourself from a distance, simply astonished by the quantities of love you manufacture. It is endless. Your adoration… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The best stories I have heard were pointless, the best books those whose plot I can never remember, the best individuals those… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A lot of people hate my skepticism, and I think I understand why. The psychics offer wonders and endless possibilities in a… — James Randi Copy Share Image
I think the things that are more painful to me are not the intrusion of paparazzi, it's the lack of civility that… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image