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The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
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What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is…
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When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
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Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.
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Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse.
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When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and…
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Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.
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This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may…
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You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not. They may…
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There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical…
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Why should anything happen when everything has happened?
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As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page…
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Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried…
— Anna Quindlen
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Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.
— Francis Chan
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Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.
— Pope Francis
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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
— Thomas Merton
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Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become,…
— Julian Barnes
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Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does…
— Bernard Cornwell
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I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Pride makes you look everyone else's faults with a microscope, but view your own with a telescope.
— Collins Hasty
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