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Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though… — Bertrand Russell
There is something about the aroma of fresh books that's totally intoxicating. A new book has a certain clean, crisp smell full of promise that… — Debra Ginsberg
You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went… — Elizabeth Strout
I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary. — Alan Moore
On many counts, taking a boy like Rudy Steiner was robbery--so much life, so much to live for--yet somehow, I'm certain he would have loved… — Markus Zusak
It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart… — Roland Barthes
I have scars on my hands from touching certain peopleâ€¦Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. — J D Salinger
There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness,… — T.H. White
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our… — David Hume
Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the same time they… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot… — Kage Baker
That was when I found out that the best way in the world to make yourself feel better when you have hit bottom is to… — Gene Wolfe
A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It wonâ€™t complain. — Jeanette Winterson
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to… — Jeanette Winterson
Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I… — Rabindranath Tagore
the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too,… — Kate DiCamillo
We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we… — Chuck Klosterman
...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me.… — Chris Crutcher

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