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What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not… — Jawaharlal Nehru
So, youâ€™re hitting on Clare the Fair.â€ â€œIâ€™m not hitting on her. Iâ€™m exploring the possibility of seeing her on social terms.â€ â€œHeâ€™s hitting on… — Nora Roberts
To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary importance. For them,… — Aldous Huxley
Iâ€™m â€œexceptionalâ€- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of â€œgiftedâ€ and â€œdeprivedâ€ (which used to mean â€œbrightâ€ and â€œretardedâ€) and as soon… — Daniel Keyes
The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant â€˜identityâ€™ (â€˜this is your duty as an Americanâ€™, â€˜you must commit these acts as… — Amartya Sen
This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'... — Julian Barnes
I believe the term youâ€™re searching for is smoking jacket. I find, now that I have whole days of sunshine ahead of me, Iâ€™ve discovered… — Kami Garcia
Heâ€™s bound to have done something,â€ Nobby repeated. In this he was echoing the Patricianâ€™s view of crime and punishment. If there was a crime,… — Terry Pratchett
If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas… — James Joyce
On the beach, at dawn: Four small stones clearly Hugging each other. How many kinds of love Might there be in the world, And how… — Mary Oliver
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In… — Julian Barnes
We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be… — N. T. Wright
Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It… — Thomas Mann
The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it â€”… — Saul Bellow
Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as a… — Eric Foner
Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realise that… — Gregory Maguire
Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant… — Michael Connelly
We are on strike against martyrdomâ€”and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must… — Ayn Rand
Liz cleared her throat. "Isn't there a more polite term we're supposed to use nowadays? Like....little person, or vertically challenged,or-" "I'm not going to call… — Rick Riordan

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