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232 Involving quotes by 212 unique authors
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Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington…
— Ron Paul
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the…
— Cesare Pavese
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I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.
— Harold Prince
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'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because…
— Jane Smiley
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Authors can only soft sell the environment. Create a wonderful story around the environment involving the characters that leaves a lasting impression on the reader's…
— Wilbur Smith
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Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that…
— Matt Taibbi
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Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige…
— James Thurber
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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made…
— Thornton Wilder
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Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways…
— Geoff Mulgan
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Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.
— Kate DiCamillo
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Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children…
— Debra Ginsberg
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Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.
— Tom Robbins
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We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits. - Joe Morelli
— Janet Evanovich
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The only other scenario that could explain everything, up to and including your own bizarre apperance, is a convoluted conspiracy theory involving the Russian Mafia…
— Eoin Colfer
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My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite unnecessary cruelty, and…
— Bertrand Russell
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He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate…
— George Orwell
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Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency…
— Mary Roach
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In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving…
— Mercedes Lackey
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For instance, dragons are deeply revered by the Chinese. According to legend they have megapowers that include weather control and life creation. And they’re seen…
— Jennifer Rardin
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A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design…
— Connie Willis
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I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of ritual? In certain…
— David Nicholls
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It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank…
— Immanuel Kant
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Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose a dog d…
— Daniel Dennett
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