As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens,… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
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Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast, Of which some days I with design have past; A part in April and a… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Attention should be paid to this question of our soul, and not simply to accounting procedures. Attention should be paid to the… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
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He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. . . . He must not… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could… — Karl Friedrich Schinkel Copy Share Image
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We need scientists to design new fuels. We need farmers to help grow them. We need engineers to invent new technologies. We… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
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by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Trust God's love. His perfect love. Don't fear He will discover your past. He already has. Don't fear disappointing Him in the… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
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I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for… — Alan Jackson Copy Share Image
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I'm going to be happy. I'm going to skip. I'm going to be glad. I'm going to be easy. I'm going to… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
If God does exist, it's in music and in art, I think there's more spiritually in what I do than in a… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
The children's writer not only makes a satisfactory connection between [the writer's] present maturity and his past childhood, he also does the… — Philippa Pearce Copy Share Image
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