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Let the liberal turn to the course of action, the course of all radicals, and the amused look vanishes from the face of society as… — Saul Alinsky
You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld we… — Terry Pratchett
..what came before has dissolved from me, lost like milk teeth. But I think, rather, that it has always been as it is, and there… — Catherynne M. Valente
Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash. — Neal A. Maxwell
For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise. — William Shakespeare
Beautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty. Beware, O people, that ye deal not treacherously with… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his… — Wilfred Owen
And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I could not say,… — Arthur Machen
Chapter One. The Bride." He held up the book then. "I'm reading it to you for relax." He practically shoved the book in my face.… — William Goldman
To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the… — Hermann Hesse
The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I am firmly of the opinion that people who can’t speak have nothing to say. It’s one more thing we do to the poor, the… — William H. Gass
But it does no good--solves nothing--to distance myself from the front lines of human need by using the mail as a safe shelter. I believe… — Robert Fulghum
The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English… — Robert A. Heinlein
Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for… — William Shakespeare
There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair — Dante Alighieri
After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our… — Jodi Picoult
A nervous silence loosens tongues — Jacqueline Carey
Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in… — Jeanette Winterson
Relief loosens tongues beyond measure. — Stephen King
Wild tongues can't be tamed, they can only be cut out. — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The… — Wystan Hugh Auden
You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting… — Elizabeth Gilbert

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