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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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Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does…
— Gerald May
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Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty…
— Cesar Chavez
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Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
— George Santayana
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Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
— Sophie Swetchine
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Work and family are at the center of our lives, the foundation of our dignity as a free people.
— Ronald Reagan
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There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly…
— John C. Maxwell
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In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human…
— Norbert Wiener
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I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the…
— Bruce Campbell
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All of our dignity consists in thought. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
— Blaise Pascal
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The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling…
— Lech Walesa
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Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to…
— Yvon Chouinard
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