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Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the war on poverty,… — Ron Paul
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the… — Aldous Huxley
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist… — C.S. Lewis
It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with… — George Orwell
Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up… — Robert Frost
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If… — Junot Diaz
Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living… — Henry Miller
Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked hair I want… — Pablo Neruda
Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep… — Louis L'Amour
Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching… — Joyce Carol Oates
I used to think that I wouldn't change anything from my past, because doing so would inevitably affect who I am now. But considering my… — Megan McCafferty
That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like… — Sarah Vowell
Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against… — Harlan Ellison
Until that moment, I hadnâ€™t realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of… — Sarah Vowell
One problem with our current society is that we have an attitude towards education as if it is there to simply make you more clever,… — Dalai Lama
I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go,… — Joanne Harris
making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry… — Paulo Coelho
Current utility and historical origin are different subjects. — Stephen Jay Gould
Gazzy: "What does that mean?" (points to metal plaque warning to stay off the third rail that said Stay off the third rail!) Fang: "It… — James Patterson
I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have… — Kay Redfield Jamison

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