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Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a… — Zoketsu Norman Fischer Copy Share Image
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“In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
So far, I've never missed a deadline for a term paper, a review, a manuscript. I perform the mumbo-jumbo of voting with… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I got a letter one day from somebody saying, 'You're always criticizing the press. Why don't you talk about what Clay Felker… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up,… — Chris Evert Copy Share Image
We were playing a fair, and a few people were handing me stuffed animals and flowers, but one person handed me a… — Blake Shelton Copy Share Image
If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
If the modern spirit, whatever that may be, is disinclined towards taking the Lord's word at its face value (as I hear… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
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I went to a state school in Christchurch, New Zealand, and then straight on to the University of Canterbury. But I worked… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper.' The whole thing is strange. You hear the words,… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
He pulled the envelope out of his pocket and ripped it open, then took out the slip of paper. The soft lights… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say,… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The decline is in paper values, not in tangible goods and services...America is now in the eighth year of prosperity as commercially… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding… — Carrie Jones Copy Share Image
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If you are loyal you are successful," ruminated the company paper at one time. "All useful work is raised to the plane… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, people go on and on about what a great idea electricity was, but I'm going to put toilet… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
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I love Halloween. It reminds me of my happy childhood days as a student at Wampus Elementary School in Armonk, N.Y., when… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
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Every inner touch, every one of its fingerprints on my brain, burned like acid. It shredded the walls of my soul like… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
It is natural that a man should consider the work of his hands or his brain to be useful and important. Therefore… — Max Born Copy Share Image
My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
![“As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the…” quote by T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6ff/t-s-eliot-633_drawers_as-a-rule-with-me-an-unfinished-idea-is_1669405.jpg)
![“I got a letter one day from somebody saying, 'You're always criticizing the press. Why don't you talk about what Clay Felker is doing to your own paper [The Voice]?' And my 10-year-old son Tom, now with Williams & Connelly, put in a legal opinion, not - an opinion from the back of the car saying…” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3cb/nat-hentoff-1615_car_i-got-a-letter-one-day-from-somebody-say_2544424.jpg)
![“Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth… [W]hat can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?... [N]othing can we call our own, but death... [L]et us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the…” quote by William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1d7/william-shakespeare-4_body_let-s-talk-of-graves-of-worms-and-epitap_570741.jpg)
![“Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will be meet with the violent resistance of the populace... One compels respect from others…” quote by Rudolf Rocker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b7e/rudolf-rocker-14426_dignity_political-or-individual-rights-do-not-ex_985308.jpg)
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