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One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
This whole time, my whole life, that harsh, stony path was leading up to this one point. I followed it blindly, stumbling… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
A man has to find a good woman, and when he finds her he has to win her love. then he has… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Maybe it's the Calvinist guilt about capitalism or mercantilism. But, I like the idea of doing things that only exist for as… — Momus Copy Share Image
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I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
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I grew up in the 1920s and 1930s in a nouveau riche world, where money was spent wildly, and I'm still living… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
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... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
There were definitely scenes I struggled with more than others: the car accident and the thunderstorm are two that come to mind.… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy;… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
I don't kill people. Perhaps it's just another inhibition to do away with it. Perhaps not. There's really no way of telling.… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
Granted, it's a long time ago, it's in the 1940s, and, granted, it's warfare that we hopefully will not conduct in a… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Fine things in wood are important, not only aesthetically, as oddities or rarities, but because we are becoming aware of the fact… — James Krenov Copy Share Image
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There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once.… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The coarsening of our culture towards violent death has more consequences than war. Tragically, this same culture has led to the death… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." "Not to mention the right to grow old… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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For the system of government you fashioned including the very principles on which you based it, is increasingly obsolete, and hence increasingly,… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image