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I chose the shadows; they did not choose me. I stay here securely not just because I feel plain, but because disappearance… — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
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If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now… — John Selden Copy Share Image
And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials… — Homer Copy Share Image
Print will never die. There's no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning pages, and being able… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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So there are two separate tracks. One track is for the Syrian government and the opposition that is interested in a peaceful… — Mohammad Javad Zarif Copy Share Image
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Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he's… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Learning to play the guitar is a combination of mental and motor skill acquisition. And to develop motor skill, repetition is essential...… — Howard Roberts Copy Share Image
Birth leads to death, death precedes birth. So if you want to see life as it really is, it is rounded on… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I had a hole in my voice. It's an area in the voice where it's air. It's just - there's no -… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child,… — Wilder Penfield Copy Share Image
You know that passage in the Bible that says, “And the meek shall inherit the Earth”? Always wondered if that was mistranslated.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
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Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I will work with Congress to introduce a series of legislative reforms and will fight for their passage in the first 100… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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Certainly anyone who comes to faith in Christ has a new heart and they have an opportunity for new life and that's… — Alan Chambers Copy Share Image
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The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image