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"A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation."
Mark Twain
"A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation."
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"I hate that would. Straight. At the very least, those of us who are nonstraight should get to be called curvy. Or scenic. Actually, I like that: 'Do you think she's straight?' 'Oh no. She's scenic."
David Levithan
"I hate that would. Straight. At the very least, those of us who are nonstraight should get to be called curvy. Or scenic. Actually, I like that: 'Do you think she's straight?' 'Oh no. She's scenic."
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"I don't care much whether I ever get to know anything - but I want to work out something in figures - something that hasn't got to do with human beings. I don't want people particularly. In some ways, Henry, I'm a humbug - I mean, I'm not what you all take me for. I'm not domestic, or very practical or sensible, really.And if I could calculate things, and use a telescope, and have to work out figures, and know to a fraction where I was wrong, I should be perfectly happy, and I believe I should give William all he wants."
Virginia Woolf
"I don't care much whether I ever get to know anything - but I want to work out something in figures - something that hasn't got to do with human beings. I don't want people particularly. In some ways, Henry, I'm a humbug - I mean, I'm not what you all take me for. I'm not domestic, or very practical or sensible, really.And if I could calculate things, and use a telescope, and have to work out figures, and know to a fraction where I was wrong, I should be perfectly happy, and I believe I should give William all he wants."
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"He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood on a platform over a sea of faces; the air was heavy, compact, saturated with a single solvent-admiration; there was no room for anything else. He was great; great as the number of people who told him so. He was right; right as the number of people who believed it. He looked at the faces, at the eyes, he saw himself born in them, he saw himself granted the gift of life. That was Peter Keating, that, the reflection in those staring pupils, and his body was only it's reflection."
Ayn Rand
"He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood on a platform over a sea of faces; the air was heavy, compact, saturated with a single solvent-admiration; there was no room for anything else. He was great; great as the number of people who told him so. He was right; right as the number of people who believed it. He looked at the faces, at the eyes, he saw himself born in them, he saw himself granted the gift of life. That was Peter Keating, that, the reflection in those staring pupils, and his body was only it's reflection."
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"Your trouble has been what old poets call Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing-the gold lion, the bearded bull-which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom of your primness. . . . The male you could have escaped, for it exists only on the biological level. But the masculine none of us can escape. What is above and beyond all things is so masculine that we are all feminine in relation to it."
C. S. Lewis
"Your trouble has been what old poets call Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing-the gold lion, the bearded bull-which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom of your primness. . . . The male you could have escaped, for it exists only on the biological level. But the masculine none of us can escape. What is above and beyond all things is so masculine that we are all feminine in relation to it."
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"He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that it was like the almost constant burden of some vague grief. And bound up with it all was an implacable sense of personal duty and the grim determination to present himself at his best, to conceal his frailties by any means possible, and to keep up appearances. It had all contributed to making his existence what it was: artificial, self-conscious, and forced-until every word, every gesture, the slightest deed in the presence of others had become a taxing and grueling part in a play."
Thomas Mann
"He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that it was like the almost constant burden of some vague grief. And bound up with it all was an implacable sense of personal duty and the grim determination to present himself at his best, to conceal his frailties by any means possible, and to keep up appearances. It had all contributed to making his existence what it was: artificial, self-conscious, and forced-until every word, every gesture, the slightest deed in the presence of others had become a taxing and grueling part in a play."
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"When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu."
W. H. Auden
"When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu."
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"I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent."
George Washington
"I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent."
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"A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone."
Donald Miller
"A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone."
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"A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people."
Toni Morrison
"A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people."
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"Never let others define you."
Auliq Ice
"Never let others define you."
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"Great, I get to be told I am dead all over again. - Stomfur"
Erin Hunter
"Great, I get to be told I am dead all over again. - Stomfur"
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"I'm fairly fond of boys, but my preference is for girls; When I have enough of a girl, she serves me still as a boy."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I'm fairly fond of boys, but my preference is for girls; When I have enough of a girl, she serves me still as a boy."
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"What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her."
Ovid
"What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her."
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"Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are."
Brandon Sanderson
"Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are."
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"WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over; I stand apart to hear-it never tires me. To you, your name also; Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?"
Walt Whitman
"WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over; I stand apart to hear-it never tires me. To you, your name also; Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?"
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"If everyone wants to be somebody, I want to be somebody else."
Benny Bellamacina
"If everyone wants to be somebody, I want to be somebody else."
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"Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers."
Toni Morrison
"Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers."
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"If we don't know who we are, we conceal our true selves and bear their brand."
Sunday Adelaja
"If we don't know who we are, we conceal our true selves and bear their brand."
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"When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'."
Criss Jami
"When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'."
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"Disregard the opinions of those you don't aspire to be, that's the first step to finding your own two feet."
Nikki Rowe
"Disregard the opinions of those you don't aspire to be, that's the first step to finding your own two feet."
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"And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most poplar girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead."
Jodi Picoult
"And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most poplar girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead."
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"You may not be the smartest, richest or best looking person but you're probably not the dumbest, ugliest or poorest either."
Rob Liano
"You may not be the smartest, richest or best looking person but you're probably not the dumbest, ugliest or poorest either."
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"I was born handsome and I will die handsome."
Santosh Kalwar
"I was born handsome and I will die handsome."
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"You are a shadow of the person you are following or understudying."
Ikechukwu Joseph
"You are a shadow of the person you are following or understudying."
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"Carlyle! Not just another nameless entity."
Anthony T. Hincks
"Carlyle! Not just another nameless entity."
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"I am the false character that follows the name around."
Don DeLillo
"I am the false character that follows the name around."
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"I am the most important person to me. I am the most important person in the entire universe to me. I am the centre of my own universe."
Patience Johnson
"I am the most important person to me. I am the most important person in the entire universe to me. I am the centre of my own universe."
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"Other young women were more than kind when it came to teaching him the basics of makeup artistry, but he did not like the idea of foundation, knowing enough alchemy to realize it had historically been made with lead and mercury."
Thomm Quackenbush
"Other young women were more than kind when it came to teaching him the basics of makeup artistry, but he did not like the idea of foundation, knowing enough alchemy to realize it had historically been made with lead and mercury."
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"What's the matter with you, Penny? You're not as good looking as you generally believe you are."
L. M. Montgomery
"What's the matter with you, Penny? You're not as good looking as you generally believe you are."
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"Don't like me for what I am.Just like me for who I am."
Anthony T. Hincks
"Don't like me for what I am.Just like me for who I am."
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"It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you can do with natural hair."
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you can do with natural hair."
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"Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult."
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"When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live."
Malala Yousafzai
"When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live."
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"When your pockets are empty, go where your heart is full."
Dragos Bratasanu
"When your pockets are empty, go where your heart is full."
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"I have been thinking that the social moulds civilisation fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies...."
Thomas Hardy
"I have been thinking that the social moulds civilisation fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies...."
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"She was a restless soul. Born with black wings and a gypsy heart."
Melody Lee
"She was a restless soul. Born with black wings and a gypsy heart."
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"Tell us which ideas you promote and we will know which type of person you are."
Eraldo Banovac
"Tell us which ideas you promote and we will know which type of person you are."
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"We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves."
Alain de Botton
"We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves."
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"When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential."
Dean Koontz
"When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential."
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"To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment."
Charlotte Bronte
"To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment."
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"I breath.I eat. I walk. My eyes are open . my tongue moves. I speak . I listen. Then why people who come around me think that I'm a toy ?"
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
"I breath.I eat. I walk. My eyes are open . my tongue moves. I speak . I listen. Then why people who come around me think that I'm a toy ?"
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"Fraternize means to behave like a brother. Luke told me that. He said there was no corresponding word that meant to behave like a sister. Sororize, it would have to be, he said. From the Latin."
Margaret Atwood
"Fraternize means to behave like a brother. Luke told me that. He said there was no corresponding word that meant to behave like a sister. Sororize, it would have to be, he said. From the Latin."
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"If I'm me.And you're you.Then who's this in the mirror?"
Anthony T. Hincks
"If I'm me.And you're you.Then who's this in the mirror?"
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"We're all freaks sometimes, Melody," he replied. "You're just... well, better at it than most."
Brandon Sanderson
"We're all freaks sometimes, Melody," he replied. "You're just... well, better at it than most."
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"When you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say."
Jeanette Winterson
"When you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say."
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"The term "musalman refers to someone with "musallam iman, that means, a pure conscience. Thus, any individual whose conscience is pure and clear, who can think for himself or herself, is a musalman or muslim, regardless of socio-religious background. Likewise, any human being who loves the neighbor as much as his or her own family is a Christian."
Abhijit Naskar
"The term "musalman refers to someone with "musallam iman, that means, a pure conscience. Thus, any individual whose conscience is pure and clear, who can think for himself or herself, is a musalman or muslim, regardless of socio-religious background. Likewise, any human being who loves the neighbor as much as his or her own family is a Christian."
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"My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.Am I a troubled kid?Yeah. You could say that."
Rick Riordan
"My name is Percy Jackson. I'm twelve years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.Am I a troubled kid?Yeah. You could say that."
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"Time will explain."
Jane Austen
"Time will explain."
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"Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence."
Darnell Lamont Walker
"Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence."
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