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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.
— Marlon Brando
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It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters…
— Lorraine Hansberry
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All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the…
— C.S. Lewis
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
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Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality…
— Eugene V. Debs
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Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our…
— George McGovern
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With the right alignment, everything you want makes its way into your experience. You are the keeper of your own gate.
— Esther Hicks
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We are warned by the Word both of our duty, our danger, and our remedy. On the sea of life there would…
— Charles Spurgeon
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If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its simplest terms, you'd conclude that a…
— Bill McCartney
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Honesty is a principle, and we have our moral agency to determine how we will apply this principle. We have the agency…
— James E. Faust
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What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and…
— Judith Crist
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