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Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world. — Sam Harris
It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs… — Terry Pratchett
Love with someone else, an actual person, was another matter. People got hurt doing that. People cried and wrapped their arms around themselves and rocked… — Deb Caletti
Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted to, but of… — Walter Scott
Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally.Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and… — Carl Schmitt
We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea… — Charles de Lint
It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to… — Betty Smith
He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish… — Andrew Sean Greer
Greenspan's eventual explanation for the growing gap between stock prices and actual productivity was that, fortuitously, the laws of nature had changed -- humanity had… — Matt Taibbi
Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not… — Bernhard Schlink
He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but won't, possibly can't,… — Michael Cunningham
But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without her,… — Philip K. Dick
All actual life is encounter. — Martin Buber
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which… — Joan Didion
I can't believe he took you to an actual resteraunt. I assumed his idea od a date would be making you watch him play World… — Cassandra Clare
You might tell me that you have been engaging in some deep questioning and theological rethinking.1 You can no longer live with the faith you… — Brian D. McLaren
Isabelle and Jace had left the topic of dead Shadowhunters behind and had moved on to something Jace apparently found even more horrifying__Isabelle's date with… — Cassandra Clare
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published… — Anne Lamott
To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because… — Leo Tolstoy
Because', she said, 'your problems are not real problems. You're dating two beautiful girls at once. Think about it. That's like...having rock-star problems.' 'Having rock-star… — Cassandra Clare
Sadie, I can't intervene." He turned up his palms in frustration. "I told you when we first met, this isn't an actual physical body." "Shame,"… — Rick Riordan
I'd witnessed for the first time in my vampire- obsessed existence an actual vampire bite. The only problem was that it wasn't my neck being… — Ellen Schreiber
In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth… — Edgar Allan Poe
Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it… — Laini Taylor

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