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The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and… — Lauren Oliver
It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole… — Jerome K. Jerome
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor… — Henrik Ibsen
So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids… — Bill Gates
To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For… — Romain Rolland
Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero. — Terry Pratchett
To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because… — Leo Tolstoy
To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving… — Rachel Carson
The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. Thatâ€™s because we typically begin at the wrong starting pointâ€”ourselves. We… — Rick Warren
Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the… — Kate Morton
Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of… — Mohsin Hamid
Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't… — Sidney Poitier
Willow nestled against him. He smoothed her long hair down the back of her T-shirt, feeling its softness. In a few moments she fell asleep… — L.A. Weatherly
It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass,… — D. H. Lawrence
I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life,… — Sarah Addison Allen
A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of… — Jerry Spinelli
James often wondered at the chain of flukes it must have taken to bring him through with his own life and limbs intact. Once he… — Laini Taylor
Why do you think the Bible has survived thousands of years of tumultuous history Why is it still here Is it because its stories are… — Dan Brown

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