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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
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There is always a time to make right what is wrong.
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And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.
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Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over…
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The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to…
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Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken, new delineations…
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Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
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Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through…
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How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape…
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The hard surface of the stone is impervious to nothing in the end. The heat of the sun leaves evidence of daylight.…
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In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.
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Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and…
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are…
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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his…
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[T]here is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to…
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Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity.
— Pope Innocent III
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What people do with food is an act that reveals how they construe the world.
— Marcella Hazan
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Richard and I, along with millions of Americans - including even Joe Donnelly - believe that life is a gift from God.…
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I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock…
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But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
— William Shakespeare
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Masculinity is a terrible problem, as we construe it and shape it.
— Susan Griffin
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Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution…
— George Haven Putnam
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