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Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does… — Thomas Merton
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the… — Hannah Arendt
Sometimes I would make left turns all the way around a block, and when I returned to the original intersection, I would feel disappointed to… — Miranda July
If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in… — Dean Koontz
It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own… — Anthony Burgess
But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our… — Matthew Arnold
America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin or… — Jean Baudrillard
Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon. — Eddie Izzard
I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher. — Voltaire
We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old… — C.S. Lewis
Marc’s hand tightened visibly around Kevin’s fingers, his digits going white. Again. Both men clenched their jaws, Kevin in pain, and Marc in an obvious… — Rachel Vincent
What's up, Hachi?" "Someone......Just slipped through my force-field." "!!!" "A soul reaper?" "No. The Hachigyo Sogai (Twin Cliffs) I set is an original technique I… — Tite Kubo
You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy. — Marian Wright Edelman
As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue?… — Gustave Flaubert
I came, I saw, she conquered." The original Latin seems to have been garbled. — Robert A. Heinlein
Nothing in Christianity is original. — Dan Brown
Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it… — Gregory Maguire
at least nine-tenths of all the original reality ever created lies outside the multiverse, and since the multiverse by definition includes absolutely everything that is… — Terry Pratchett
Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in… — Mercedes Lackey
Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But… — Albert Camus
Look, I know you meant well creating the world and all, but how could you let it get away from you like this? How come… — Sue Monk Kidd
Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the… — Brenda Ueland
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. — William Wordsworth
Once you’ve lived a little you will find that whatever you send out into the world comes back to you in one way or another.… — Slash
Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East… — Zadie Smith

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