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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs,…
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In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also…
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own,…
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You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the…
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Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their…
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of…
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A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant…
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This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the…
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Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the…
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I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.
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War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
— William Cowper
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Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our…
— Angela Davis
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Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful…
— Plato
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Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To…
— William Shakespeare
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Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know…
— W. Eugene Smith
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The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least…
— Laozi
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Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own.
— Robert Herrick
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Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by…
— Jonathan Mayhew
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There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
— Sam Harris
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