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We can see the child moving rather serenely in the uterus. The child senses aggression in its sanctuary. We see the child's mouth wide open… — Bernard Nathanson
In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work… — Peter Sotos
If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a… — William Mapother
If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it… — Bernard of Clairvaux
It seems to me that what most of us have to fear for the future is not that something terrible is going to happen, but… — J. G. Ballard
To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately. — Russell L. Ackoff
I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree,… — Ansel Adams
My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees,… — Alfred Stieglitz
He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it… — Saint Augustine
The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into… — Betty Friedan
It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy. — Edward Abbey
There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical connotations; C.S. Lewis… — Julian Barnes
The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have… — Thomas Jefferson
America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed… — Edna Ferber
I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for most of the… — Kazuo Ishiguro
When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct… — Frederic Bastiat
Iâ€™d rather sing a sad song than eat, — George Jones
Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the… — George Jones
General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the… — Mercy Otis Warren
I would rather be judged by 12 farmers than 12 scholars. — Thomas Jefferson

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