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““man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.””

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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

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It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

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Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body…

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I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

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If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull…

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“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.”

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If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

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I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall…

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I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer.

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Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,…

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“...proving once again that there was no escape from recurrence.”

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“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a…

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To follow good manners willingly is like paving the road and to tell somebody to follow them is like the road which is always…

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Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . .…

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“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word…

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Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake!

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“Create with the heart; build with the mind.”

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I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the…

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Seoul will strictly limit the total greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and expand the construction of zero-energy buildings.

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It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out…

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“Over 275,000 people had signed to end the construction of the TMT telescope at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) by week 20 of the protest.”

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Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

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Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought…

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