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You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove. — Ted Hughes
According to his dad's journal, vampires had been through some of the worst epidemics in history. And apparently, during the days of the Black Plague,… — Heather Brewer
The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers,… — C.S. Lewis
The Shield was another of the Fear's names. According to Laughter, it means he shields the seed of Abraham the way a man starting a… — Frederick Buechner
According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired." "Meaning what?" "Meaning, don't… — Haruki Murakami
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned. — Samuel Beckett
According to all the experts, it's time for me to talk about what I'm going through... I can't. I'd need a new alphabet, one made… — Jandy Nelson
You get the idea. Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What… — Richard Branson
And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only… — Karl Ove Knausgard
The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that could last not… — Christopher McDougall
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. — Immanuel Kant
There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of… — Kenneth Grahame
So, if people didnâ€™t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no… — Bill Bryson
Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957) — Laura Ingalls Wilder
The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us. — Stephen Hawking
The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that… — R.K. Narayan
According to Kierkegaard, rather than searching for the Truth with a capital T, it is more important to find the kind of truths that are… — Jostein Gaarder
I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted… — Nikola Tesla
Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change… — Haruki Murakami

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