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My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
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I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
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Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Involve yourself every day. Work hard and figure out how to love acting all day, every day. It's getting into a made-up… — Jeff Goldblum Copy Share Image
Impertinence will intermeddle in things in which it has no concern, showing a want of breeding, or, more commonly, a spirit of… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor.' 'If… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Everybody is born with the capacity to enjoy, but not with the art. People think just because they are alive and they… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term-meaning that the creation of a simple… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
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I think the sheer attrition of American global domination will create circumstances in which the Chinese will be tempted to reach out… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I don't know what of our culture is going to survive, or if we survive. If you look at the Greek plays,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer… — Robert Rhodes James Copy Share Image
Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
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Any time you have someone's first-hand account of the sheer terror that ISIS can provoke... that's powerful. — Chuck Fleischmann Copy Share Image