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I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods,… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
Music is sound, vibrations, whereas paintings are vibrations of whatever you pick up. It's not actually an energy vibration you get from… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be… — Madison Grant Copy Share Image
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Liberalism and Western-style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity. Today, these two concepts have failed. Those… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
Every winner needs to master three essential components of trading; a sound individual psychology, a logical trading system and good money management.… — Alexander Elder Copy Share Image
The Queen of Air and Darkness tilted back her head and laughed. A more ghastly sound I hope never to hear. ‘Do… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Your perception of the world is ... really a fabrication of your model of the world. You don't really see light or… — Jeff Hawkins Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Rage flared up in Tessa and she considered belting Woolsey with the poker whether he came near her or not. He had… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
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Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
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The essence of the cinema that I'm interested in is a combination of love, rage, and curiosity. Sometimes it's hard to see… — Pablo Larrain Copy Share Image
There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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Lots of people look for happiness through sensations, whether it's through sex, the taste of food, the sound of music, the sensations… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
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No, [the U.S.] has made it clear that we consider a peaceful resolution an essential aspect of American foreign policy. This I… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Mont Blanc yet gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights And many sounds, and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
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Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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