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It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; the tear may be forgotten.... but the hurt stays in the heart. — Ella Higginson
They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends? Therefore we are free to kill them?… — J M Coetzee
We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly… — Albert Schweitzer
We have no butter... but I ask you, would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat. — Hermann Goring
I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber… — Oscar Wilde
It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good… — Aristotle
If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap… — Thomas Jefferson
Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around. — Bryan White
It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is… — Kurt Vonnegut
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and… — Hal Boyle
One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be. — Andre Malraux
The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake. — Savielly Tartakower
My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end… — Gustave Flaubert
Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's… — Barry Hannah
It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as… — Mark Twain
I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than… — Mark Twain
I can only gesture at what makes a story good. — Leonard Michaels
I don't care if you broke, you grew up broke... you grew up rich. You only get 24hrs in a day! We all only get… — Eric Thomas
Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I'm unhappy at not being able to open packages anymore. I'm angry that libraries have gone. I… — Joan Rivers
Make a list of competitors who will be disrupted by you. You do have competitors, right? You are better, right? If not, why are you… — Robert Scoble
You should know what makes one photo brilliant and another. Why one illustration is instructive and another is banal. Why one blurb is clever and… — Jason Calacanis
I think there are many feminists who would say that I am not a feminist. I love women, I have a lot of girlfriends, I… — Stephenie Meyer
It's difficult on my dating life, because anyone I get photographed with is automatically my boyfriend. So it just makes it look as if I've… — Emma Watson
It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and… — Anna Quindlen

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