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Would I still feel this way on leaving the party tonight? Or would I find cunning ways to latch on to minor… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
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I've never seen radio as the minor leagues, where I'm just really preparing to be in the show that really counts, namely,… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
I felt like I could get away with calling it Black Hours. That could easily be the most depressing record ever written,… — Hamilton Leithauser Copy Share Image
At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
One of the reasons [William] Shakespeare is so endlessly fascinating is that you can look at that figure from about 10 different… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Many people think of our times as being the last before the end of the world. The evidence of horror all around… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
If, for example, existing government intervention is minor, we shall attach a smaller weight to the negative effect of additional government intervention.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Our best long-term and intermediate cycles suggest another slowdown and stock crash accelerating between very early 2014 and early 2015, and possibly… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
Big Fish was the first movie that we worked on together, and I had already written it. We had another director, but… — John August Copy Share Image
People don't hijack planes anymore because that old system of hijacking in order to barter for a prison release or get to… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Candidates who win while spending less than their opponents still usually have to spend quite a lot. While not a surefire guarantor… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
When the only bond between close friends is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one's projections to change. As soon… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life… — John Green Copy Share Image
Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
By the English common law, her husband was her lord and master. He had the custody of her person, and of her… — Harriet Hanson Robinson Copy Share Image
Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation… — Robert Henry Thurston Copy Share Image
Professor Lyall, cursing his Alpha for departing so precipitously, balled up the piece of paper and, after minor consideration for the delicacy… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
a guardian ad litem... GAL is appointed by a court to be a child's advocate during legal proceedings that involve a minor.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Men are capable of making great sacrifices, who are not willing to make the lesser ones, on which so much of the… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
However, today due to civil litigation funded by cults this option for families has been eliminated. Instead, the only form of cult… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Sometimes, counter-intuitively, it's easier to make a major change than a minor change. When a habit is changing very gradually, we may… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
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Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things,… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Major league baseball players and owners should meet immediately to enact the standards that apply to the minor leagues, and if they… — John McCain Copy Share Image
If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
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