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I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I still had my… — Bill Bryson
Brackets come in various shapes, types and names: 1 round brackets (which we call brackets, and the Americans call parentheses) 2 square brackets [which we… — Lynne Truss
The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive… — Mahatma Gandhi
Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical… — Daniel Dennett
Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given… — Milan Kundera
World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The… — Louis MacNeice
I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are driven to make decisions which prove… — Swami Satchidananda
Liz looks at the tissue box, which is decorated with drawings of snowmen engaged in various holiday activities. One of the snowmen is happily placing… — Gabrielle Zevin
Now, I'm not very vain. If I'd ever been, making my living covered in various grease and dirt mixtures would have cured me quickly. Still,… — Patricia Briggs
You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?"… — Ian Fleming
Since Iâ€™ve known you, youâ€™ve been spinning and spinning and spinning into all these various personas, and none of this self-exploration and experimentation has given… — Megan McCafferty
The various forms of education or â€˜normalizationâ€™ imposed upon an individual consist in making him or her change points of subjectification, always moving towards a… — Gilles Deleuze
When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began… — Richard P. Feynman
You don't scare me, Cadence Jones. I've lived with crazy, I've ridden with crazy, I've vacationed with crazy, I've visited crazy in various hospitals, I've… — MaryJanice Davidson
Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though sometimes this changes… — David Foster Wallace
I contemplate the idea that maybe I'm an alcoholic. I get this occassionally, the need to define myself as something-or-the-other, and at various times in… — David Nicholls
The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it,… — Jonathan Franzen
Oh, for heavenâ€™s sake, Sirius, Dumbledore said no!â€ A bearlike black dog had appeared at Harryâ€™s side as Harry clambered over the various trunks cluttering… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do… — David Foster Wallace

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