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What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no… — Isaac Asimov
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let… — Woody Allen
I felt that the Church was the Church of the poor,... but at the same time, I felt that it did not set its face… — Dorothy Day
I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of my pain, a… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why… — Nicole Krauss
I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is… — William Gibson
It is an important distinction to note that she looked not only as if she had taken good care of herself, but that she had… — John Irving
Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace. — Leonard Bernstein
The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts… — Carl Jung
Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the… — Isaiah Berlin
You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book. — Elizabeth Kostova
A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth. — Tim O'Brien
Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me, for deep feeling… — Trinh T. Minh-ha
That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don’t know it. Those who… — Ayn Rand
We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of… — Chuck Palahniuk
Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I… — Oprah Winfrey
You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total… — Banksy
Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me. — Flannery O'Connor
She was startled. "But you're human, aren't you?" In some ways yes. But in other ways I'm a stranger to your kind. I have a… — Deepak Chopra
Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without… — Ron Paul
I do think that women could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which… — Germaine Greer
When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of… — Leo Tolstoy
What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition… — Leo Tolstoy
It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are,… — Gordon B. Hinckley

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