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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?
— Bertolt Brecht
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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.
— Bobby Jones
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Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I think now we have a very unique opportunity, thanks to the election result, thanks to such a big vote for the…
— Tim Costello
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The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and…
— William J. Clinton
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...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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The reality in Washington D.C. is if you live in Tenleytown versus if you live in Anacostia, you get two wildly different…
— Michelle Rhee
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One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with…
— Mike Tyson
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Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that…
— Thomas Szasz
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The public doesn’t have to be hostile to the rich. ‘Robbing the rich to help the poor’ will only drive the rich…
— Zong Qinghou
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