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Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice. — John Rawls
According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you… — Deepak Chopra
THE FATHER: But don't you see that the whole trouble lies here? In words, words. Each one of us has within him a whole world… — Luigi Pirandello
Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were… — Thomas Jefferson
All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the… — Nikos Kazantzakis
I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. — Erica Jong
According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent… — Etgar Keret
In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them. — Annie Dillard
In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases — John Irving
R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more than,… — Douglas Adams
I always think about what it means to wear eyeglasses. When you get used to glasses you don't know how far you could really see.… — Andy Warhol
They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder, writers advocating censorship,… — Ludwig von Mises
According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant… — Sam Harris
There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner… — Mark Twain
According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all chose to be… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Every man gives his life for what he believes ... one life is all we have to live and we live it according to what… — Joan of Arc
Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle… — Diane Setterfield
My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel —… — Joseph Conrad
There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no secret clauses, and according to this convention it is agreed that,… — Maurice Blanchot
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live… — Henry David Thoreau
Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of… — Charles Dickens
According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you… — Haruki Murakami
What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said,… — Terry Pratchett

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