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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
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When the death of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thrust him suddenly into the Presidency in April of 1945 at one of the… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I do all the things that singer-songwriters do. I introduce the songs, I have a story to tell about everything all the… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
Of course, then you nearly crushed to death in front of my eyes. Later I thought of a perfectly good excuse for… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
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Your wedding completely changes the direction of your life, you know, no matter how greatly you desire it. I think that moment… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
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I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
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When the lights go down, that's 30,000 peoples lives colliding. Everyone there working is working for that moment, everyone watching is watching… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
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I'd realized then just how strong our connection was, how perfectly we understood each other. I'd been skeptical about people being soul… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
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My grandmother stepped back into the kitchen to get their drinks. I had come to love her more after death than I… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Everyone reads a different book. That's what's interesting. Everyone sees a different film, as well. We bring our past lives to whatever… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I am a Christian because of that moment on the cross when Jesus, drinking the very dregs of human bitterness, cries out,… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
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Still. Smokers out there, you know what I'm talking about. That moment, after you've had a huge meal, say at Thanksgiving, when… — Jim Leyland Copy Share Image
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The massacres are the result of a policy which, as far as can be ascertained, has been entertained for some considerable time… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
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It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness… — George Will Copy Share Image
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Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened.… — John Berger Copy Share Image
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