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If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what… — Chuck Klosterman
So what rhyming poems do is they take all these nearby sound curves and remind you that they first existed that way in your brain.… — Nicholson Baker
Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity. — Tim O'Brien
It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one… — Robert Hughes
Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral systems are therefore… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Husbands are not Christ. But they are called to be like him. And the specific point of likeness is the husband's readiness to suffer for… — John Piper
It's funny, because even though they're rattling on about the Games, it's all about where they were or what they were doing or how they… — Suzanne Collins
What does this Daimon look like? (Xedrix) Heâ€™s tall and blond. (Kyle) Well, that narrows it down to every Daimon here except Stryker. What would… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Iâ€™ve been doing this a long time, and Iâ€™ve come to learn that predictions donâ€™t mean much. Too much lies outside the realm of medical… — Nicholas Sparks
And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of… — Alan Moore
I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific. — Virginia Woolf
Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to… — Jonathan Stroud
Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Donâ€™t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific. — Zig Ziglar
Hey, Carlos," the Professor says when he walks in. "How was REACH?" "It sucked." "Can you be more specific?" my guardian asks. "It really sucked,"… — Simone Elkeles
The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first,… — Malcolm X
She looked down again and I was stymied. I sat. Oh, this was enough to make me love her, because I was right with her,… — Steve Martin
Toska - noun /ËˆtÅ-skÉ™/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At… — Vladimir Nabokov
Iâ€™ve never tried to keep a specific person alive before, and itâ€™s much more troublesome than I would have believed. But thatâ€™s probably just because… — Stephenie Meyer
The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must… — Oliver Sacks

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