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253 Among Them quotes by 222 unique authors
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His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.
— Suzanne Collins
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A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social…
— Wendell Berry
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In really bad times, the hungriest would gather at his door at nightfall, vying for the chance to earn a few coins to feed their…
— Suzanne Collins
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Consider the stars. Among them are no passions, no wars. They know neither love nor hatred. Did man but emulate the stars, would not his…
— Sarah Monette
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They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For…
— Cormac McCarthy
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When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them;…
— Thomas Paine
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Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.
— Robert Harris
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation,…
— Arnold Bennett
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A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch…
— Virginia Woolf
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Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing…
— Mary Balogh
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Several of them were discussing this in low tones as they waited for Halt to arrive - until they realized that he was already among…
— John Flanagan
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Soon,” said the crackling voice of the flame, coming from behind him, “they will fall. Soon they will fall and the star people will meet…
— Neil Gaiman
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Later, with time, I learned that although all men are capable of good and evil, the worst among them are those who, when they commit…
— Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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The mountains are great stone bells; they clang together like nuns. Who shushed the stars? There are a thousand million galaxies easily seen in the…
— Annie Dillard
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Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these…
— Honore de Balzac
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There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them.
— Julia Quinn
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They sped by a pack of sea lions lounging on the docks, and she swore she saw an old homeless guy sitting among them. From…
— Rick Riordan
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I done me best when I was let. Thinking always if I go all goes. A hundred cares, a tithe of troubles and is there…
— James Joyce
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He recalled Galloran stating that being a hero meant doing what was right regardless of the consequences. The thought sent a thrill through him. Galloran…
— Brandon Mull
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What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all…
— Franz Kafka
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How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness…
— Galen Beckett
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I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be…
— Walt Whitman
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There are many perks to living for twenty-one centuries, and foremost among them is bearing witness to the rare birth of genius. It invariably goes…
— Kevin Hearne
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