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At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand. — Confucius
Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise,… — Charles Dickens
That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves. If we are directed from Washington (heads of an organization) when to sow… — Thomas Jefferson
Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant. — John Muir
I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are… — Erica Jong
In my darkest night, when the moon was covered and I roamed through wreckage, a nimbus-clouded voice directed me: "Live in the layers,not on the… — Stanley Kunitz
But deep down she said to herself, Franz maybe strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with,… — Milan Kundera
I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they certainly project, not… — Ayn Rand
Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out.… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their… — C.S. Lewis
The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing. — Alice Walker
Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers… — Ronald Reagan
Charity is today a 'political charity.'. . . it means the transformation of a society structured to benefit a few who appropriate to themselves the… — Gustavo GutiÃ©rrez
The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness. — Charles Baxter
So much of my life had been under tight control. So much of Quinn's life had been wild insanity. What we needed now was both:… — Neal Shusterman
An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of… — H P Lovecraft
One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartesâ€™ argument â€œI think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly,… — Jean-Paul Sartre
The company later went broke, and of course all blame was directed at the lawyers. Not once did I hear any talk that maybe a… — John Grisham
She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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