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From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
'Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
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I've always believed that government tends to screw up whatever it touches, but Obama in particular seemed different. He understood tech issues… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
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I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Warsan means "good news" and Shire means "to gather in one place". My parents named me after my father's mother, my grandmother.… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
Apologists for activist government never tire of telling us that the benevolent state is our protector and that without it wed be… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
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My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
Crowds can be frightening. They have a way of impressing the low, base taste upon their members. Watching the way thousands of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I'm still committed to the socialist idea because the socialist idea, correctly understood, includes the principles of freedom and social justice. It… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
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This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasn't afraid… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon; Where… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
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We knew that al-Qaida was a threat to our country. We knew that the Clinton administration understood this and was working against… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire;… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
And with a few moments like that, with doubt from here and there, and within ourselves we were just striving for excellence.… — Jørn Utzon Copy Share Image
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Political parties often take advantage of denial and fear in a moment of change. This is a well understood phenomenon that often… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
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I am in between. Trying to write to be understood by those who matter to me, yet also trying to push my… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority,… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Both [Donald] Trump and Bernie [Sanders] got to this idea of the vanishing middle class sooner and with more passion than more… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The way I understood purgatory - and maybe you've got a different version - but in Chicago in the '70s, the idea… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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