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What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?
Delores Phillips
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For some reason our lives were marked by summers.... Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened
Ann Brashares
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Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.
Jean M. Auel
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To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them 'common' to all participants in the discourse. (The etymological root of communication means 'common.')
Robin Lakoff
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It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.
Robert Sheckley
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The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future personally, especially the longer future, because that world is suffused with our absence.
Stewart Brand
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I am sure everyone here has noticed a city where they felt at home, or a city that had bad vibes.
Christopher Penczak
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Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.
Wes Moore
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A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.
Dan Simmons
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The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.
Ellen Glasgow
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Love shouldn't make a beggar of one. I wouldn't want love if I had to beg for it, to barter or qualify it. And I should despise it if anyone ever begged for my love. Love is something that must be given — it can't be bought with words or pity, or even reason.
Jacqueline Susann
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Conservatives want to make the poor rich, while liberals want to make the rich poor.
Mark W. Smith
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Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don't have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move.
Betty Eadie
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Memories. form the building blocks of family history. They are the stories that survive in our kitchens and in our living rooms. Stories that tell it like it is about the way it was, the way it used to be. Some are humorous, others are painful, even embarrassing, but all of them make up the essence of African American history.
Henry Louis Gates
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Archie was an expert at dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.
Annie Proulx
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I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
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Lies were like acid, corrosive: They could dissolve trust in a heartbeat.
Rob Thurman
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We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and not by generating renewable flows.
Joseph J. Romm
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Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.
Robert B. Parker
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Horses' personalities were even more vivid in our minds than the personalities of our human associates. The mounted stranger yielded first place in interest to the horse he bestrode. A year later we might have forgotten the color of the man's eyes, but never the set of the ears on his horse's head.
Agnes Morley Cleaveland
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We exist because of suburbia. Suburbia is a freak's dreamworld, a world of extra rooms upstairs and long, lazy afternoons with no interference. A place where you can listen to your LPs for hours on end. You can live in your room, your own rent-free corner of the universe, and create a world of pleasure and interest entirely centered on yourself and your interior aesthetic and logic.
Dana Spiotta
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Evil is short lived. Never judge of the whole round of life by the mere segment you can see. The whole is, in the end, perfect.
Frank Norris
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I told my brothers I heard
You & mother making love,
Your low moans like blues
Bringing them into the world.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.
Christopher West
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If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north.
Jessica Day George
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