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Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that… — Milton Friedman
Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece… — Gloria Steinem
You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by… — Vaclav Havel
These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words… — Walter Mosley
I considered the case and realized that if something can exist in opinion without existing in reality, or exist in reality without existing in opinion,… — Machado de Assis
To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see… — Albert Camus
The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or… — Thomas Sowell
How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the… — Paulo Coelho
People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their… — Andrzej Sapkowski
And nevertheless I have loved certain of my masters, and those strangely intimate though elusive relations existing between student and teacher, and the Sirens singing… — Marguerite Yourcenar
I can hear President Snow's voice in my head. 'On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them… — Suzanne Collins
Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing. — Gertrude Stein
A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me… — Michael Pollan
Are You Living or Just Existing?" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys — Tyler Perry
And, what's more, this 'precious' body, the very same that is hooted and honked at, demeaned both in daily life as well as in ever… — Emilie Autumn
My duty moves along with my song: I am I am not: that is my destiny. I exist not if I do not attend to… — Pablo Neruda
I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this question… — Ahdaf Soueif
Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him. — Stephenie Meyer
People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones… — John Green

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