"I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits."

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"I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits."

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"Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music."

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"Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely."

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"Ram-fication of Ravan-ous thoughts is what Dussehra all about."

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"I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent in upstate New York, in the country north of Buffalo and West of Rochester. So this part of New York state is very familiar to me and, with its economic difficulties, has become emblematic of much of American life."

Joyce Carol Oates, American Novelist

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Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love."

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"We are nothing but bricks from our cultural molds."

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"To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way."

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Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

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"Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music."

"Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely."

"Ram-fication of Ravan-ous thoughts is what Dussehra all about."

"Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury."

"The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love."

"We are nothing but bricks from our cultural molds."

"To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way."

"The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points."

"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned."

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"Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves."

"No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately."

"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

"Heureuse la mort qui oste le loisir aux apprests de tel equipage."

"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."

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"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."

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