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Maybe this is why I sleep only a few hours a month. I don't want to die again. This has become clearer and clearer to… — Isaac Marion
One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope… — Ned Vizzini
... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did not deter crime… — Michelle Alexander
Instead of lowering your head and copping to it like a man, you pick up the journal as one might hold a bady's beshattered diaper,… — Junot Diaz
Myrnin," she said. "He didn't show up at the rendezvous." "And? Dude's crazy, in case you didn't notice recently. He probally went of the chase… — Rachel Caine
Ladies and gentleman," he said over the speakers, "welcome aboard this recently liberated Gulfstream V. If I could have your attention for just a few… — Derek Landy
Leo had recently discovered how to change the display, like the Times Square JumboTron,so now the banner read: Merry Christmas! All your presents belong to… — Rick Riordan
He pulled the Carstairs family ring from his finger and held it out to Will. "Take it." Will let his eyes drift down toward it,… — Cassandra Clare
Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.'… — Jim Rohn
Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health. — Jane Austen
The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest… — Leo Tolstoy
"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that… — Franz Kafka
Until relatively recently, mass political movements were still about basic rights of food, shelter, education and self sufficiency. The reasons fewer people vote these days,… — John Diamond
As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have… — Tony Judt
Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American power, American virtue,… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing… — Nigel Mansell
A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two contradictory sides of… — Stephen Jay Gould
People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation has given way… — George Smoot
Usually, my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it. — Demetri Martin

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