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There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as…
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As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of…
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I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out.…
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It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks…
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I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to…
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To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse,…
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Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental…
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Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.
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Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.
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Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out…
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We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
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That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect…
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To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk…
— Isaac Asimov
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I've been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs. I think producers felt that after playing a long series…
— Greer Garson
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It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.
— Ludwig Bemelmans
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Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out…
— Etty Hillesum
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How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?
— Donald Justice
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Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.
— Nell Freudenberger
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It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in…
— Norm Coleman
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Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is…
— Lewis Grizzard
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It’s obvious you kids are smart-school and good teachers will do that for you-but wisdom is something altogether different. Wisdom can be…
— Andy Andrews
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We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.
— Louis L'Amour
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