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There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious… — Alexander Hamilton
We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier spirit even though… — Eric Weiner
Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs. — Chris Cleave
Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current will knock you off your feet and… — Louis Sachar
Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My… — Edgar Allan Poe
Nothing can help me but that beauty. There was a dawn I remember when my soul heard something from your soul. I drank water from… — Rumi
Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers. -Dexter — Jeff Lindsay
As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or… — Mervyn Peake
Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart. — Anne Rice
Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary… — Frances Mayes
I think these younger Christians are the vanguard of some major new religious, social, and political arrangements that could make the older form of culture… — Timothy Keller
The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical… — Daniel Dennett
I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good. — Douglas Adams
Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the… — James A. Baldwin
She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself. — Mohsin Hamid
UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower… — Muhammad Yunus
I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying… — James Salter
Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but… — Cassandra Clare
Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel --… — Robert Anton Wilson

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