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Our submission to general principles is necessary because we cannot be guided in our practical action by full knowledge and evaluation of the consequences. So…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and…
— George Saunders
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Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
— Francis Cabot Lowell
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Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of…
— Andrew von Eschenbach
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She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There was an operation,…
— Helen Hodgman
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'Early stages' is when the cancer is completely contained within the prostate. If it is detected when the cancer is entirely in the gland, the…
— Len Dawson
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As the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop, the Pakistani bus conductor leaned from the platform and called out, "Six only!" The bus…
— Unknown Author
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It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale authentic copy; a…
— Umberto Eco
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Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So…
— Zhuangzi
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I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I wake to find…
— Amy Lowell
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From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still lives, that God still observes, ... still reigns. Faith is…
— Arthur W. Pink
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I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The full excision, not…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Throughout our history each and every generation has expanded upon the freedoms won by their parents and grandparents. Each and every generation has removed some…
— Michael Bloomberg
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It is long past time to eliminate bigotry in the workplace and to ensure equal opportunity for all Americans. It is time to make clear…
— Tom Harkin
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A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells…
— Erica Jong
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Be aware, and wine becomes water. Be aware - sex becomes love. Be aware - love becomes prayer. Be aware - prayer becomes meditation. Simply…
— Rajneesh
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Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader must plod through…
— Barbara Tuchman
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Life is very full of sex, or should be. As much as I admire Tolkien - and I do, he was a giant of fantasy…
— George R. R. Martin
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Now every girl is expected to have Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a…
— Tina Fey
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There are some forty thousand children in California, according to the red brief, that live with same-sex parents, and they want their parents to have…
— Anthony Kennedy
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God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
— Publilius Syrus
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Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that…
— Unknown Author
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Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat…
— Unknown Author
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The purpose of Yoga is to facilitate the profound inner relaxation that accompanies fearlessness. The release from fear is what finally precipitates the full flowering…
— Erich Schiffmann
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