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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it…
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By 'Love' people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you…
— Rajneesh
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Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy,…
— Richard P. Bland
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If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you things…
— Stephanie Klein
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And, if you believe, in very simple terms, that people mean you well, and will treat you kindly, they will. And, if…
— Jane Roberts
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I have always found writing pleasant and don't understand what people mean by 'throes of creation.'
— E. M. Forster
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Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.
— John Scalzi
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Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
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Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and…
— E E Cummings
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Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology…
— Neil Postman
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At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.
— William Safire
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There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
— Chris Cleave
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What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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