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Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home . . . and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with… — St. Catherine of Siena
I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature… — Gottfried Leibniz
From a Buddhist point of view, the actual experience of death is very important. Although how or where we will be reborn is generally dependent… — Dalai Lama
I am afraid there are people who want to stop the economic growth, the rise in the standard of living (though not their own) and… — Vaclav Klaus
You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that… — Robert Henri
Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction to the protagonist. — David Mamet
I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you know what poems… — Theodore Roethke
It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest,… — Grenville Kleiser
To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the… — Aldous Huxley
I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the principal… — George R. R. Martin
[My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable...My interest… — John Green
Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would be… — Elizabeth Bowen
Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build… — Sol Stein
I do a lot of the stuff that I started out doing that I think any guitar player that's concerned about the craft needs to… — John Petrucci
Owen scores and breaks Lineker's competitive scoring record. Although this being a friendly it doesn't actual count, so he hasn't quite done it yet. — John Motson
Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of the horizon; of… — Amos Bronson Alcott
You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging… — Dave Barry
Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ...… — Auberon Waugh
For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The danger of tautological propositions is considerable in discussions of the concept of normal profits. Because supernormal profits seem to invite newcomers to an industry… — Fritz Machlup
I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered… — Alfred Marshall
So they can create a class they don't like-here, homosexuals-or a class that they consider is suspect in the marriage category, and they can create… — Sonia Sotomayor
There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the… — Charlotte Dacre
Please remain calm: The Earth will heal itself - Climate is beyond our power to control...Earth doesn't care about governments or their legislation. You can't… — Robert B. Laughlin
A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity — Joseph Goebbels

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