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He would read up on parenting, if he thought it would help, but his errors always seemed too basic for the manuals. "Always tell your… — Nick Hornby
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who… — Ayn Rand
The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition.… — J D Salinger
The first step to change,... is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only holds the pattern… — Dan Millman
Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives. — Sophie Hannah
... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic… — Milan Kundera
The Chancellor looked down at the empty table for a minute. Then he shrugged, looked up, and gave a surprisingly jaunty smile. "All in favor… — Patrick Rothfuss
As for me, I believe that if there's a God - and I am as neutral on the subject as is possible - then the… — Elizabeth McCracken
Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience.… — Lyall Watson
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isnâ€™t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the vocal cords.… — Eckhart Tolle
The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the… — Albert Einstein
So many people never pause long enough to make up their minds about basic issues of life and death. It's quite possible to go through… — Catherine Marshall
There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and… — Saint Augustine
Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The crying, almost screaming, need of… — Tennessee Williams
The basic problem of the Christians in this country in the last eighty years or so, in regard to society and in regard to government,… — Francis Schaeffer
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all… — John Kenneth Galbraith
All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill the first requirement,… — Peter S. Beagle
Alright then, let's explain it this way. There are four basic kinds of Daimons or vampires; bloodsuckers, soulsuckers, energy/dreamsuckers, and slayers. (Talon) You guys are… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal as far as other witches are concerned. There's a conflict of dominant personalities. There's a… — Terry Pratchett
Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly… — Herman E. Daly

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