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Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe.
Stefan Zweig
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What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?
Carl Sandburg
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Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.
Dale Carnegie
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Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.
Rebecca Goldstein
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Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Are you afraid? Remember the fear nots of the Bible.
Elisabeth Elliot
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The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.
George Bernard Shaw
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God is the only sure foundation on which the mind can rest.
Samuel I. Prime
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
E. M. Forster
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Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
Samuel Johnson
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Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.
Benjamin Disraeli
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In life nothing goes on for ever, even if it looks exactly as if it would.
Ursula Bloom
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I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
Samuel Johnson
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There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
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I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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This new crop of actors, they're larger than life people. I don't think that this generation has the same following that the last one had. You don't say you've got to see his movie, you've got to see her movie any more.
Stephen Humphrey Bogart
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But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural catastrophe as never before. The century would create death, devastation and pollution as never before. Yet the century was now attached to the idea that man must take his conception of life out to the stars.
Norman Mailer
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Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Robert Southey
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The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.
Jon Meacham
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It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.
E. M. Forster
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It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing and fearful or he can be faithful and loyal, courageous and the best of companions and allies.
Ranulph Fiennes
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The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.
V. S. Pritchett
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