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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it…
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The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him,…
— William Barclay
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I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.
— Tony Bennett
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If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our…
— Jonathan Goforth
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Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession,…
— William Howard Taft
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow…
— David Levithan
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We still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it…
— Martin Jacques
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Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make…
— Jane Mayer
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For once this Pentecost has come, beloved, those who pass beyond that day and still insist on giving the Light to the…
— Pearls Of Wisdom
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