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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
Luc de Clapiers
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You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.
Chuck Palahniuk
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The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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A writer decides to follow some ideas and not others for reasons that aren't always clear to him. It's often a matter of intuition.
Don DeLillo
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The last thing I want is that sense of artifice - rather I want the reader drawn into the story and lost in it and vested in it. So the emotional connection is everything, albeit a connection on my terms.
Steve Erickson
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Samuel Johnson
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I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.
Henry David Thoreau
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Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
Thomas Carlyle
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If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect.
Leo Tolstoy
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If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves and more than that, it is an instigator.
Karl Kraus
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The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.
Ellen Glasgow
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
Camille Paglia
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The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.
Luc de Clapiers
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Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
Freya Stark
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Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn nature's oldest force is as good as new.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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There are no new ideas about female education.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect property.
Frederic Bastiat
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I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
Ayn Rand
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Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea.
Arundhati Roy
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God is not in strength but in truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.
Henry David Thoreau
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Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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