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Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into… — Scott Westerfeld
I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two.… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is diminished, so earning a higher income at the cost… — Ha-Joon Chang
People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive. — Ha-Joon Chang
Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control… — Jonathan Franzen
You had this young man with you for... what, six years?" Halt shrugged. "Near enough," he replied. "And did you ever understand a word he… — John Flanagan
...the Statue of Liberty's got this invitation: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless--' 'Huddled masses,' said Ira. 'Give me your tired, your… — Neal Shusterman
Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have… — Margaret Thatcher
Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes… — Jonathan Swift
The world is not made of countries and outsiders. We are all just humans, and most of us fools and all of us longing for… — Catherynne M. Valente
Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its… — Michel Foucault
Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'? — David Mitchell
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world — Democritus
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. Use your memory!… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I lived in countries that had no democracy... so I don't find myself in the same luxury as you do. You grew up in freedom,… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why… — Gertrude Stein
Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend… — Richard Rohr
Some wars are about bombing. For the people of the Baltics, this war was about believing. In 1991, after 50 years of brutal occupation, the… — Ruta Sepetys
When you visit countries that don't nurture these kinds of ambitions, you can feel th absence of hope...people are reduced to worrying only about that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice… — Saadat Hasan Manto

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