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Feelings aren't good or bad. They're just weak or strong. Love, for example, is weak: someone loves you, you love them back, you're happy for… — Dan Wells
Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for a specific example?"… — Judith McNaught
Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient… — Oscar Wilde
It was like that class at school where the teacher talks about Realization, about how you could realize something big in a commonplace thing. The… — Amy Hempel
I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining… — Bear Grylls
I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious and merciless to… — Susan Abulhawa
We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as slaughterhouses, meat markets,… — Carol J. Adams
The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events… — Terry Pratchett
You went to all that trouble just for my body?" I said, amazed and so grateful. Reyn looked up, irritation on his face. "Yeah. We… — Cate Tiernan
It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand. — Steven Erikson
We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example,… — Milton Friedman
Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order to find out… — Paul Auster
No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from… — Paulo Freire
Her phone rang again. â€œWhat?â€ she snapped as she answered it. Myrnin, of course. â€œAre you on your way?â€ â€œNo!â€ â€œClaire, there are things to… — Rachel Caine
Sheâ€™d survived the Drowned Cities because she wasnâ€™t anything like Mouse. When the bullets started flying and warlords started making examples of peacekeeper collaborators, Mahlia… — Paolo Bacigalupi
When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours; and although we may… — Veronica Franco
Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I… — Jorge Luis Borges
...you showed me what love truly is just by giving yours so selflessly. I wasn't made for love. It wasn't [woven]into the fabric of my… — Sylvia Day
Respect was earned, not demanded, but dignity was taught by example. — Julie Garwood
[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories… — Aldous Huxley

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