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It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those… — Neale Donald Walsch
On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the… — Gabrielle Zevin
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it… — John F. Kennedy
I think every person who is single should have a dog. I think the government should step in and intervene: If you're not married or… — Jennifer Weiner
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage… — Bertolt Brecht
This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest… — Cormac McCarthy
If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation… — William Strunk, Jr.
We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of… — Joan Didion
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You… — Louis L'Amour
The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out… — Terry Pratchett
Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to… — Karen Marie Moning
God did not direct His call to Isaiahâ€” Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" The call of God is… — Oswald Chambers
You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Don't confine yourself to a select group of friends, often known as a clique. Cliques by definition leave people out. Lock yourself into one, and… — Jerry Spinelli
We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own making. We are… — Sheldon B. Kopp
Americans have a taste forâ€¦rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary… — Albert Einstein
Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing… — Lynne Truss

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