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Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the two… — Peter Kreeft
See, the ‘small stuff’ is what makes up the larger picture of our lives. Many people are like you, young man. But their perspective is… — Andy Andrews
No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need… — Chuck Palahniuk
I have always envied people who believe strongly in religion, people who could face a tragedy by praying and know that it would be all… — Jodi Picoult
He waved at his attendants. "I dragged them like a ball and chain all the way across the palace and back." "If sterner measures are… — Megan Whalen Turner
Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some feeling that there is something larger -… — Diana Gabaldon
A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment… — Anita Shreve
As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend… — Charles Darwin
Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be… — John Green
When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories… — Eugene H. Peterson
Sure, on a larger scale, it was healthy to have people out there you cared about more than yourself. She knew that. But then there… — Harlan Coben
So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in a good, small… — John Kennedy Toole
After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and… — Carson McCullers
Jesus was saying that you can't have a larger life with restricted attitudes. — Joel Osteen
A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad.… — Ben Okri
How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first… — George Eliot
And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day… — Alejandro Jodorowsky
For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which,… — Virginia Woolf
The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized. — Raymond E. Feist
Love is larger than the walls which shut it in. — Corrie Ten Boom
I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it… — David Farland
the people who live in the last places - the people who are most neglected and least valued by the larger world - often represent… — Greg Mortenson
Curled up at the base of the scales, fast asleep, was the oddest monster I'd seen yet. It had the head of crocodile with a… — Rick Riordan
It was considerably larger than a knife hilt. — Meg Cabot
Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory… — Terence McKenna

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