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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed? I'm sure I should be myself were…
— Emily Bronte
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I really beleive that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their outlook…
— Michael Collins
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Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save…
— Sherman Alexie
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Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent…
— Philip Yancey
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I'm vile and perverted. I'm obsessed and deranged. I've existed for years but very little has changed. I'm the tool of the government and industry…
— Frank Zappa
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People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
— Malcolm X
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Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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I said, "It seems like you have fond feelings towrd your ex-wife. Are you two still close?" "Nah," he said casually. "She thinks I changed…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier…
— Adam Johnson
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I suppose he could have changed," Neal said dryly. "I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil." The other pages snorted. Kel eyed…
— Tamora Pierce
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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back…
— Sarah Dessen
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We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely?' It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the…
— Studs Terkel
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As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not…
— Nelson Mandela
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Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.
— Nelson Mandela
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...he enclosed pieces of string that he used to measure out his body--his head, thigh, forearm, finger, neck, everything. He wanted me to sleep with…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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