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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time… — Margaret Atwood
The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots… — Henry Ward Beecher
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. — Saul Bellow
We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a… — Robert Benchley
What is the constitution of the universe? The universe is the manifestation of the divine thought; the thought of God embodies itself in the thought-forms… — Annie Besant
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. — Niels Bohr
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as… — James Buchan
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. — Leo Buscaglia
Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves American is to care for the… — Steve Buyer
I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I need to be… — Nicolas Cage
We call first truths those we discover after all the others. — Albert Camus
Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very,… — Sherman Alexie
We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven… — Noam Chomsky
My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that… — Deepak Chopra
What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see the positive, we… — Marianne Williamson
Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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