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1742 quotes by 1342 authors
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Sir" said Mrs. Meade indignantly. "There are NO deserters in the Confederate army." "I beg your pardon," said Rhett with mock humility. "I meant those…
— Margaret Mitchell
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If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?'…
— Jasper Fforde
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You owe me!" -Stephanie "Why do I owe you?" -Joe "I caught your no good cousin." -Stephanie "Yeah and in the process you burned down…
— Janet Evanovich
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Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades,…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands of years.†“Yeah, 
— Rick Riordan
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Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who…
— Charles Kingsley
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One thousand ways to say good-bye One thousands ways to cry One thousand ways to hang your hat before you go outside I say good-bye…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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You have no sense of what war is like. You have no idea what it means to see those you love fall. You cannot possibly…
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
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We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form…
— Malcolm X
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For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their day-to-day lives, this decision affirms the full legal protections…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did the…
— David Levithan
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In reality the world is made of thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each…
— Neil Gaiman
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I'm no military expert, and these figures might not be exactly right,' I said. 'But as best I can tell, we've launched 114 Tomahawk cruise…
— Greg Mortenson
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Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within…
— Daniel Quinn
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Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have…
— George W. Bush
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[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years.…
— Daniel Quinn
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Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas.…
— Sharon M. Draper
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O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will…
— Walt Whitman
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