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I couldn't help but think, as I watched him, of the barrels of toxic fluids that had accrued behind Hal's bike shop where the scrub… — Alice Sebold
Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he… — Douglas Adams
Abraham Maslow said that the fully realized person transcends his local group and identifies with the species. But the election of Ronald Reagan might've been… — George Carlin
As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try… — Sri Aurobindo
If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in… — Wendell Berry
What planet are you from? Obviously Planet Insanity was missing a local, long-term resident.' (Nick) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
After a universal silence, Leo was the first to speak. â€œDid anyone else noticeâ€”â€ â€œYes,â€ Catherine said. â€œWhat do you make of it?â€ â€œI havenâ€™t… — Lisa Kleypas
What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked. Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us." "Sure," said Magnus.… — Cassandra Clare
Nick was dressed in jeans, a dark green sweater, and bomber jacketâ€“the perfect image of a rich college student. Talon looked like a biker who… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I gave examples from my clinical practice of how love was not wholly a thought or feeling. I told of how that very evening there… — M. Scott Peck
Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was… — Douglas Adams
The gospel of grace nullifies our adulation of televangelists, charismatic superstars, and local church heroes. It obliterates the two-class citizenship theory operative in many American… — Brennan Manning
Even if there was such a thing as a half-price sale at the local Ming outlet shop, she would have to work ten lifetimes to… — Alexandra Ivy
Boredom forces you to ring people you havenâ€™t seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long.… — Jeremy Clarkson
New York is perhaps the only place in America where you feel at the centre and not at the margins, in the provinces, so for… — Italo Calvino
Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the… — H P Lovecraft
The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into… — Wendell Berry
As a writer one doesnâ€™t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because society… — William Trevor
Staring Girl I once knew a girl who would just stand there and stare. At anyone or anything, she seemed not to care She'd stare… — Tim Burton

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