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Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal… — Michael Eric Dyson
It is hard to get animals which normally pay little attention to each other to do things together. One can teach dolphins to jump simultaneously… — Frans de Waal
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so muchâ€”the wheel, New… — Douglas Adams
It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Hospitalizations in general are blurry. The days are the same, precisely the same. Nothing changes. Life melts down to a simple progression of meals. They… — Marya Hornbacher
I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this… — Christopher Hitchens
As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
maybe memories are like karaoke-where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at… — Douglas Coupland
Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?" Deed, and I don't, know" said… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Although the constellations in which I have found myself - and naturally also the periods of life and their different influences - have led to… — Pope Benedict XVI
I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand… — Amy Tan
I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them. — Richard Paul Evans
...it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it… — P.G. Wodehouse
He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that… — Tom Robbins
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to… — Margaret Atwood
The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is… — C.S. Lewis
Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter… — Charles Dickens

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