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the problems of three little people in a big world don't add up to much
— Humphrey Bogart
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Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for…
— Daniel Handler
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A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have…
— Nelson Mandela
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Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. Mr. Prongs agrees…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find…
— Tom Robbins
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It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.
— Albert Einstein
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Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not…
— John Dewey
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In the time of your life, live—so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but…
— William Saroyan
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You are equipped with strong bodies and educated minds. Add to these an unshakable faith in a divine providence and you have the tools by…
— Harold B. Lee
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When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the…
— Walt Whitman
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know…
— Winston Churchill
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April is the cruelest month, T.S. Eliot wrote, by which I think he meant (among other things) that springtime makes people crazy. We expect too…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will…
— Daniel Defoe
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After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which…
— Rohinton Mistry
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Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There…
— Robert Henri
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To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize…
— C.S. Lewis
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How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue...and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake? Where does the…
— Rita Rudner
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The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting…
— Marcel Duchamp
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Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and…
— Malcolm Lowry
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[A]ll knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room.…
— Isaac Asimov
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Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions…
— Marilynne Robinson
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In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of…
— John Irving
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If you are worried about the people outside, the most unreasonable thing you can do is remain outside yourself. Christians are Christ's body...every addition to…
— C.S. Lewis
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