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"The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility."
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Georges Bataille
"The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility."
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"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."
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Arthur C. Clarke
"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."
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"I wanted to be apart of the karma, that fed those whom have hurt me.. Than I realised, being apart of their karma is not a way to be free, so I let go with the belief;that, They chose the deed,& karma knows where their true intentions lead."
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Nikki Rowe
"I wanted to be apart of the karma, that fed those whom have hurt me.. Than I realised, being apart of their karma is not a way to be free, so I let go with the belief;that, They chose the deed,& karma knows where their true intentions lead."
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"When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race."
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race."
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"The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section."
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Joseph Epstein
"The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section."
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"As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks."
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David Horowitz
"As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks."
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"Book - what they make a movie out of for television."
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Leonard L. Levinson
"Book - what they make a movie out of for television."
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"They were Republicans, Nixon Republicans, and so didn't subscribe to the notion that laws are supposed to apply to all people equally."
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Bill Bryson
"They were Republicans, Nixon Republicans, and so didn't subscribe to the notion that laws are supposed to apply to all people equally."
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"I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything."
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Lawrence Durrell
"I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything."
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"People nowadays talk about the world's problems like they're reading lines off a teleprompter. They recite what they're told and echo it without thinking. It has become easier to divide people than to unify them, and to blind them than to give them vision. We are no longer unified like a bowl of Cheerios. Instead, we have become as segregated as a box of Lucky Charms. Every day we see the same leprechauns on TV acting like they're the experts of everything."
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Suzy Kassem
"People nowadays talk about the world's problems like they're reading lines off a teleprompter. They recite what they're told and echo it without thinking. It has become easier to divide people than to unify them, and to blind them than to give them vision. We are no longer unified like a bowl of Cheerios. Instead, we have become as segregated as a box of Lucky Charms. Every day we see the same leprechauns on TV acting like they're the experts of everything."
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"Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair."
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Tom Shales
"Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair."
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"Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done."
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Al Bernstein
"Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done."
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"All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates."
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Frank Chodorov
"All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates."
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"Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened."
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Lawrence Durrell
"Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened."
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"I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood."
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John Perry Barlow
"I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood."
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"Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause."
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Fredrik Bajer
"Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause."
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"But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV."
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Dave Eggers
"But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV."
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"Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it."
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Fannie Hurst
"Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it."
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"This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough."
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Mary Austin
"This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough."
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"Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on."
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Ursula K. Le Guin
"Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on."
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"A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth."
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Stendhal
"A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth."
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"We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children."
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Ella Maillart
"We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children."
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"There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo."
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Susie Bright
"There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo."
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"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."
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John Cheever
"The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness."
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"The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to."
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to."
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"My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing."
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Philip Pullman
"My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing."
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"I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more."
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Piers Anthony
"I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more."
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"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried."
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried."
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"Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him."
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H. L. Mencken
"Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him."
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"Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart."
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Freya Stark
"Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart."
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"Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh."
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Denis Norden
"Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh."
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"But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make."
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Patrick Marber
"But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make."
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"The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them."
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Christopher Dawson
"The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them."
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"I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in."
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Augusten Burroughs
"I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in."
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"She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years."
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J. B. Priestley
"She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years."
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"What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?"
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Norman Douglas
"What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?"
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"I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots."
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Isak Dinesen
"I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots."
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"Patience is the best medicine."
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John Florio
"Patience is the best medicine."
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"Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity."
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Edmond De Goncourt
"Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity."
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"Child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived within him and who he will miss terribly."
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Pablo Neruda
"Child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived within him and who he will miss terribly."
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"What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities."
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Augustus Hare
"What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities."
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"But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago."
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Augusten Burroughs
"But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago."
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"Fiction is life with the dull bits left out."
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Clive James
"Fiction is life with the dull bits left out."
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"Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words."
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Jonathan Dimbleby
"Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words."
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"Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly."
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Arthur C. Clarke
"Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly."
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"Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist."
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Seth Godin
"Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist."
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"Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool."
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Andre Maurois
"Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool."
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"Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown."
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Francis Parker Yockey
"Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown."
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"I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation."
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Margaret J. Wheatley
"I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation."
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"As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward."
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Augusten Burroughs
"As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward."
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