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Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important… — David Foster Wallace
It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength… — Marya Hornbacher
We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic… — Frank Herbert
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings,… — Anne Frank
It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot… — M.F.K. Fisher
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your… — Philip K. Dick
Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of… — Carl Sagan
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto --… — Diane Ackerman
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open… — John Lennon
To have Christian hope means to know about evil and yet to go to meet the future with confidence. The core of faith rests upon… — Pope Benedict XVI
Although the constellations in which I have found myself - and naturally also the periods of life and their different influences - have led to… — Pope Benedict XVI
The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its… — Robert Hughes
Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become… — Greg Mortenson
The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her… — Hans Selye
The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which… — Frantz Fanon
Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep… — Haruki Murakami
Darkness invades the dreams of the glassblower. Of all the unpleasantries his dreams grab in out of the night air, an extinguished light is the… — Thomas Pynchon

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