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2570 quotes by 2034 authors
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It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.
— James Gleick
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Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present…
— Victor Hugo
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The world is still new . . . it seems old to us, but only seems because our lives are so short . . .…
— Carlton Mellick III
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How do you feel?†she asked, trying to fluff his pillow. “Other than terrible, I mean.†He moved his head slightly to the side. It…
— Julia Quinn
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If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free…
— Benjamin Carson
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Sufficiency isn't two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn't a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency…
— Brené Brown
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My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and slowly and methodically…
— Jon Richardson
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The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.
— Milan Kundera
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I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of…
— Jodi Picoult
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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean…
— Oscar Wilde
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What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time…
— Hugh Prather
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A full-out rebellion would take a major amount of luck and coordination. The Tech Nos and Domotor looked at me, waiting. No one else would…
— Maria V. Snyder
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See?" he said, with an unholy amount of glee. "I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often." "No. Trust me, you…
— Rachel Caine
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You're...a demon hunter?' 'It's not as exciting as it sounds,' he said. 'There is a surprising amount of paperwork involved.
— Maureen Johnson
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I believe that the world isn't always what we can see...I believe there are secrets in the woods. And I believe that goodness wins out...So,…
— Anne Ursu
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There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. (67)
— Tom Perrotta
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Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.
— Stephen King
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I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually…
— Ann Aguirre
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We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?
— Nick Hornby
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I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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