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You'd think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much thick, meaty stuff… — Ben Fountain
For 6,000 years, these rules have been unquestionably right. And yet we break them every day. People feel that something is wrong in life. There… — Krzysztof Kieslowski
So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my… — Jennifer Egan
Effort is between you, and you, and nobody elseI'm pissed off for greatness. Cause if you ain't pissed off for greatness, that just means you're… — Ray Lewis
The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an… — David Tudor
When stress is the basic state of mind, even good things stress us out. We have to learn to let go. — Sakyong Mipham
When we are using this term 'basic goodness,' we are talking about our inherent completeness. — Sakyong Mipham
There is a fundamental principle. People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country… — Norman Finkelstein
I believe that the basic nature of human beings is gentle and compassionate. It is therefore in our own interest to encourage that nature, to… — Dalai Lama
I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes. — Jean Helion
I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug "Want to kill ya" song, I'm ready to go out and get crazy.… — Channing Tatum
The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and… — Peter L. Berger
Every call to worship is a call into the Real World.... I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day and meet with… — Eugene H. Peterson
Year after year, we have had to explain from mid-year onwards why the global growth rate has been lower than predicted as little as two… — Stanley Fischer
Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with… — Margaret Thatcher
American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the… — Muriel Rukeyser
The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are… — Gro Harlem Brundtland
Now, everybody knows the basic erogenous zones. You got one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven. ... OK, now most guys will hit one,… — Monica Denise Brown
The hurting of women is . . . basic to the sexual pleasure of men. — Andrea Dworkin
Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a… — Leo Szilard

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