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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs,…
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In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also…
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own,…
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You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the…
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Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their…
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of…
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A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant…
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This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the…
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Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the…
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I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death…
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A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abiding testimony…
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection of others,…
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If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord…
— Charles Spurgeon
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A guest worker program should help farmers who are willing to pay a fair wage for law-abiding, dependable workers - not punish…
— Bob Goodlatte
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Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
— Wole Soyinka
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And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world for what…
— George McGovern
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Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines…
— Charlotte Mason
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The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual,…
— Ronald Reagan
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