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Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity. — Pope Francis
Material possessions in themselves are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing, shelter and food. Yet if we refuse to share what… — Pope Benedict XVI
When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or the ordination of… — Pope Benedict XVI
Itâ€™s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from… — Gillian Flynn
Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your… — Rose Tremain
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch, — Michael Ondaatje
What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with - no future… — Graham Swift
This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead… — Jack White
The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on,… — Alberto Giacometti
The Jews are the most miserable people on earth. They are plagued everywhere, and scattered about all countries, having no certain resting place. They sit… — Martin Luther
To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin to look upon… — Leonard Peltier
Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family,… — Russell Kirk
The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in a realm of… — Russell Kirk
There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged an attack. As… — Vasily Grossman
So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies… — Franz Liszt
I am closest of all to happinessâ€”although I wonâ€™t attempt to define just what it isâ€”when I turn away from the window and am aware,… — Victor Pelevin
The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of fighting with with… — Karl Popper
I really wasn't needed... Just straightening up riffs, that's all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one. — Jimmy Page
It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art. — David Foster Wallace
In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought a TRS-80 instead… — Colson Whitehead

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