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"The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King."
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"The essence of life change when we admire our teachers kindneess."
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"Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit."
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"Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best."
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"Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about."
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"Andrea: "....I think a dog is a great idea. I just never pictured you with a mutant poodle. Kate: "He isn't a poodle. He's a Doberman mix."Andrea: "Aha. Keep telling yourself that."
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"The young man, perched insecurely in the slender branches, rocked till he felt slightly drunk, reached down the boughs, where the scarlet beady cherries hung thick underneath, and tore off handful after handful of the sleek, cool-fleshed fruit. Cherries touched his ears and his neck as he stretched forward, their chill fingertips sending a flash down his blood. All shades of red, from a golden vermilion to a rich crimson, glowed and met his eyes under a darkness of leaves."
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"There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve."
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"Do not effort to win but try to lose if your Close one is there to fightHappiness that is achieved after losing to our close one's ,that is not possible to achieved even after winning the world."
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"A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions."
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"Self - worth and net worth are not the same."
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"My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment."
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"I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation."
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"The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech."
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"What's going on outside, Ravic? 'Nothing new, Kate. The world goes on eagerly preparing for suicide and at the same time deluding itself about what it's doing. 'Will there be war? 'Everyone knows that there will be war. What one does not yet know is when. Everyone expects a miracle. Ravic smiled. 'Never before have I seen so many politicians who believe in miracles as at present in France and England. And never so few as in Germany. She remained lying silent for a while. 'To think that it should be possible- she said then. 'Yes- it seems so impossible that it will happen some day. Just because one considers it so impossible and doesn't protect oneself against it."
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"I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing."
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"Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination."
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"Theres something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they're close, like you could reach out and touch them. But you cant because sometimes things look alot closer than they seem."
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"I'm glad Reagan is president. Of course, I'm a professional comedian."
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"In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective."
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"I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none."
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"If you bewilder other people about your self identify, this shows that you are being behaving really good in disguise. Also, if posses this kind of personality, you will likely have no remorse for your mistake and you will eventually lose your trust from others."
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"The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion."
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"To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art."
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"The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands nor in the perfection of their bodies but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight with the blow to live an eternity in an hour."
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"Books?' Ridley looked disgusted. 'Carry?"
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"If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake."
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"A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom."
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"The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital."
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"If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence."
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"One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it."
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"A young man is afraid of his demon and pulls his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him."
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"I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid."
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"If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius."
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"No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job."
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"The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons."
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