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There is often grace in silence. But there is always power in understanding.
Michele Norris
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If we grow old wisely, we lay aside the senseless forms and meaningless conventions of society and go back to a more primitive mode of social intercourse, picking our friends the way children do, - because we like them, - spending time enough with them to get some real good out of them.
Mary Heaton Vorse
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The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.
Nicholas G. Carr
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The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.
James Wolcott
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Americans respect talent only insofar as it leads to fame, and we reserve our most fervent admiration for famous people who destroy their lives as well as their talent. The fatal flaws of Elvis, Judy, and Marilyn register much higher on our national applause meter than their living achievements. In Amerca, talent is merely a tool for becoming famous in life so you can become more famous in death - where all are equal.
Florence King
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Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of the artist.... In relation to the inclusiveness and literally endless intricacy of life, art is arbitrary, symbolic and abstracted. That is its value and the source of its own kind of order and coherence.
Jane Jacobs
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A little honest swearin' wipeth away anger and bringeth peace to the soul.
Elmer Kelton
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It is hard even for science to quell the imagination and to confine an observer to facts.
Waldemar Kaempffert
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Marcuse wrote: "Perhaps an accident may alter the situation, but unless the recognition of what is being done and what is being prevented subverts the consciousness and the behavior of man, not even a catastrophe will bring about the change."...
Daniel Pinchbeck
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Pearl Harbor led us into a great war and out of a great depression. This new war on terrorism will be fought less conventionally, and it could lead us into a deep recession.
Tom Brokaw
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If technology... is to be regarded as a great engine, a mighty accelerator, then knowledge must be regarded as its fuel. And we thus come to the crux of the accelerative process in society, for the engine is being fed a richer and richer fuel every day.
Alvin Toffler
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The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.
James Carroll (author)
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God draws no distinction between Himself and us. God opens up the union of the very godhead (Trinity), and brings us into it.
Paul Crouch
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It is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.
George Howe Colt
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The weapons laboratory of Los Alamos stands as a reminder that our very power as pattern finders can work against us, that it is possible to discern enough of the universe's underlying order to tap energy so powerful that it can destroy its discoverers or slowly poison them with its waste.
George Johnson (writer)
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I consider the domestic virtue of the Americans as the principle source of all their other qualities. It acts as a promoter of industry, as a stimulus to enterprise and as the most powerful restraint of public vice.... No government could be established on the same principle as that of the United States with a different code of morals.
Francis Grund
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Long time I been on my own, but now really I'm alone. I survive the killing, the starving, all the hate of the Khmer Rouge, but I think maybe now I will die of this, of broken heart.
Patricia McCormick (author)
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On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them, the hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.
Gideon Welles
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Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.
Alan Barth
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Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.
Sergei Dovlatov
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It's my experience that you first feel the impulse to write in your chest. It's like falling in love, only more so. It feels like something criminal. It feels like unspeakably wild sex. So, think: When you feel the overpowering need to go out and find some unspeakably wild sex, do you rush to tell your mom about it?
Carolyn See
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Have you ever felt as if other people were smarter than you? Quicker on the uptake? Zombies feel this way every day.
Scott Kenemore
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For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name,
He writes—not that you won or lost—but how you played the Game.
Grantland Rice
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The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.
A. J. Liebling
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