"The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self."

Life, Debate, Self, Tension

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William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"How magical can a person be when she is blessed with infinite kindness?"

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"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."

John Stuart Mill, English Philosopher

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"If the universe is movement, it will not be in one direction only. We think of our lives as linear but it is the spin of the earth that allows us to observe time. Walk with me."

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"It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave."

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"The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles."

"There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form."

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"Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words."