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What I'm primarily saying,' he says, 'is that this is a time for knowledge assimilation, not backstabbing. We learned a lesson, you and I. We… — George Saunders
The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls. We become more significant individuals as we serve… — Spencer W. Kimball
Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition… — Karl Rahner
We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them… — Ann Brashares
She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind. — Kurt Vonnegut
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit… — Anthony Burgess
Charity is today a 'political charity.'. . . it means the transformation of a society structured to benefit a few who appropriate to themselves the… — Gustavo GutiÃ©rrez
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern. — Ronald Reagan
What is a normal child like? Does he just eat and grow and smile sweetly? No, that is not what he is like. The normal… — Donald Woods Winnicott
[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres. — Arthur Schopenhauer
In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the… — Marcel Proust
Sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a chance to learn the appropriate greeting. Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part… — Pearl Cleage
This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of human… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
ignition! blast off!!! the vessel needs a new name! something more appropriate to a starship. apollo? gemini? enterprise. already taken. millennium falcon. trademarked. all rights… — Margaret Weis
Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destructive energy leaking out of her body. She allowed the… — Paulo Coelho
Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should… — George Orwell
Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems… — John Dewey
Why would an all-powerful creator decide to plant his carefully crafted species on islands and continents in exactly the appropriate pattern to suggest, irresistibly, that… — Richard Dawkins

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