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570 Entered quotes by 509 unique authors
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Life is to be entered upon with courage.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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We are not called upon to enter into controversy with those who hold false theories. Controversy is unprofitable. Christ never entered into it. 'It is…
— Ellen G. White
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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new…
— James Wolcott
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Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
— Loretta Young
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Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed…
— Hanna Rosin
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We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try…
— Thomas Huxley
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A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their…
— Lorraine Hansberry
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When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned to love with…
— Jeanette Winterson
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There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick…
— Charles Dickens
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And at that moment a wind came out of the northwest, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches, and danced over the downs,…
— Lord Dunsany
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I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!
— Juana Inés de la Cruz
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They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had…
— Joseph Campbell
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No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I…
— George Eliot
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There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the…
— Charles Bukowski
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Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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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
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…Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze just above the…
— Michael Ondaatje
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As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their…
— Sidney Poitier
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But I believe the words entered me and changed me and still work in me. The words eat me and sustain me. And when I'm…
— Charles Frazier
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What will happen when my heart stops beating?" Momo asked. When that moment comes," said the professor, "time will stop for you as well. Or…
— Michael Ende
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A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct funhouses…
— John Barth
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All I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to retain my freedom.'…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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