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The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that… — Tobias Wolff
There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat… — Joy Williams
Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly troubling,… — Judith Butler
I do not deny certain kinds of biological differences. But I always ask under what conditions, under what discursive and institutional conditions, do certain biological… — Judith Butler
In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom. In fact, as… — Jack Kornfield
Once you run for office, you're in it - sort of like going into the military. You'd better be damned sure it is what you… — John F. Kennedy Jr.
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and… — Gaston Bachelard
The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he… — Francis Hutcheson
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a… — Thomas Merton
Nonviolence seeks to â€˜winâ€™ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a higher and more… — Thomas Merton
I would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be inarticulate… — Richard Wilbur
Today certain definite ideas are developing out of the Egyptian ideas. What is called Darwinism today did not arise because of external reasons. We are… — Rudolf Steiner
Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe... Anthroposophists are those who experience,… — Rudolf Steiner
There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony. — Lily Allen
We need a new way of doing business to get out of the present crisis ... Absolute greed has come close to bankrupting the world.… — Richard Branson
Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite spontaneously. You always… — Michael Haneke
You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back… — Thomas Sankara
If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the… — Tony Abbott
We find it difficult to comprehend, and we deeply regret the decision as it is discriminatory in the sense that it targeted certain countries without… — Marty Natalegawa
Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics. — Nick Rahall

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