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If hatred strikes you, if you get accused, thrown to the lions, you can expect one of two reactions from people who know you: some… — Milan Kundera
In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject… — Susan Juby
What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking… — Thomas Sowell
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's… — William James
For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an â€˜ism becomes so involved in reaction against other â€˜isms that… — John Dewey
But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away,… — Nicholas Sparks
Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with some one long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family. — Chelsea Handler
Beef. Yes. Roast beef. It's the Swedish term for beef that is roasted. — Daniel Handler
How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or… — Ian Mcewan
I'm like everyone elseâ€”I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does. — Paulo Coelho
He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her. — W. Somerset Maugham
But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms. — Oscar Wilde
Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically,… — Willard Van Orman Quine
The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most… — Ursula K. Le Guin
It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of… — Richard Wurmbrand
I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish… — C.S. Lewis
The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if… — Daniel Handler
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others. — Oprah Winfrey
A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist. — Wallace Stevens

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