A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

Author: Jeane Kirkpatrick

Author: Jeane Kirkpatrick

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...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would hav

Author: Jack Kerouac
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelati

Author: H. P. Lovecraft
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Everything went back to normal and there is nothing in it for me as such.

Author: Neetesh Dixit
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If it's me against 48 I feel sorry for the 48.

Author: Margaret Thatcher
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Leaders find something to die for, not something to live on. If you haven't found something to die f

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness - both the ones you have received and the ones

Author: Dawna Markova
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I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.

Author: Rachel Hartman
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Stories are just lies made to look like truth.

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The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The De

Author: Malcolm Wallop
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This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fa

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
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The armored infantry was Santa Claus, the battle was out Christmas. What else for the elves to do on

Author: Hiroshi Sakurazaka
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Apparently if you want to get a boy to like you, you go sort of mysterious and icy and cool. That’s

Author: Louise Rennison
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That night I looked up at those same stars, but I didn't want any of those things. I didn't want Egy

Author: Jenny Lawson
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To be able to shit on people before they get a chance to shit on you. That's power.

Author: Sister Souljah
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope fo

Author: Noam Chomsky
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Was he hitting some type of werewolf midlife crisis? First, he'd left Wolf Town, and now he was envi

Author: Rose Wynters
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Let the blossoms of love beautify your heart.Let the spirit dance with joy.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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High altitude astronomy is a strange world of oxygen starvation, sleep deprivation and radiation sic

Author: Steven Magee
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Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it,

Author: Giacomo Casanova
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On occasion we stumble upon what seems to be a truth. Compared to the surrounding blackness, it spar

Author: Roy L. Pickering Jr.
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Often she felt as though she had been picked up and turned about like a kaleidoscope, that all her c

Author: Judith Lennox
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Love only serves and does not calculate. Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endle

Author: Bryant McGill
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Everyone has a story to tell, so why not let me put it on paper!

Author: Maija Monreaux
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A man’s spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own in

Author: Jeremy Aldana
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The spirits of just men made perfect.

Author: Hebrews
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And what after all, is death?? 'Tis but a cessation from mortal life; 'tis but the finishing of an a

Author: Samuel Richardson
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If something you desire is not happening, you are not emotionally or mentally ready for it yet. Make

Author: Russell Anthony Gibbs
Quote #262302

I have graven it within the hills, and my vengeance upon the dust within the rock.

Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or ve

Author: Roberto Bolaño
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While we must always strive to grow beyond those who come before us, we must revere and learn from t

Author: Alexandra Silber
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Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces b

Author: Jodi Picoult
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When you learn to trust and believe in yourself—your thoughts, feelings, and intuition—you give othe

Author: Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
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The busiest man is the happiest man.

Author: Sir Theodore Martin
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The poor things keep calling in those – those pumbles, I think they're called – you know, the ones w

Author: J.K. Rowling
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That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take libert

Author: Michael Morpurgo
Quote #409784

Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness an

Author: Julia Child
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with t

Author: Harold Geneen
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You will be doing your students a much greater service by reducing the amount of material that you a

Author: James M. Lang
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So She had to satisfy herself with the idea of love-loving the loving of things whose existence she

Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
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But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.

Author: Jodi Picoult
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Reiki is the best vibration for helping someone to relax well and deeply. Relaxation is key to human

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In fact, all of us are very susceptible to having our humiliating experiences turn to shame, especia

Author: Brené Brown
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My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too.

Author: Carol Burnett
Quote #267121

Just tell me what's so irritating."(katsu)That's none of your damn business!"(kyok)Maybe not. But I'

Author: Natsuki Takaya
Quote #503394

I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted.

Author: Harvey Milk
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Disappointment means that things haven’t worked out the way you wanted! And now what to do? Very sim

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
Quote #372462

Getting wasted is never a waste of time.

Author: Jonathan Heatt
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Beauty isn't what you see it's what you believe in

Author: ashadnan
Quote #243779

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

Author: Dean Koontz
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It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.

Author: Gerry Abbey
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We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization in which people have dared to think it practi

Author: Arnold Toynbee
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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards

Author: Desmond Tutu
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Writers write because they're writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to

Author: Brian A. McBride
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The most expected thing you can expect is what's unexpected.

Author: Dick Allen
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Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respec

Author: Mario Puzo
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Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and a lo

Author: Jose James
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The tear is the language of the soul and the voice of the feeling.

Author: Filippo Pananti
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Entrepreneurship is like a computer game in which you have to master every level before achieving su

Author: Vivek Wadhwa
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He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, s

Author: Lisa See
Quote #177508

Bathing is not negotiable! So is brushing your teeth and washing your underwear, so that you always

Author: Archibald Marwizi
Quote #341908

Life will always have a different plan for you. If you don’t give up, you will eventually get to you

Author: King Samuel Benson
Quote #350041

If sensing so badly of yourself you also sense a need to make me sense that, then I sense sadly that

Author: Brian Spellman
Quote #496300

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and

Author: Ramakrishna
Quote #493459

Now that I have a thousand albums in my car all the time, I listen to more music. I was too lazy; I

Author: Trent Reznor
Quote #48138

...as far as we are capable of knowledge we sin in neglecting to acquire it...

Author: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Quote #303299

Simulated ardor is a shameful form of lying.

Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Stop saying that you have done it for someone, Because never in your life you do things for other's,

Author: Manish Kejriwal
Quote #50045

The home is a place where we show our children that we can communicate, learn, and succeed together.

Author: Farshad Asl
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Life is not lost by dying life is lost minute by minute day by day in all the thousand small unc

Author: Stephen Vincent Benet
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Nevermind nomenclatures, boy! What a serendipitous situation this is!

Author: T.T. Faulkner
Quote #114609

The smell of the ocean, southern breeze, blue sky, and the gentle sound of dancing waves make me sin

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #114050

The biggest and grandest adventure in life is life itself.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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I'm not a political Christian; for the most part I allow people even their vain, earthly rights. And

Author: Criss Jami
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I love books because I don't have to wait for the commercials to be over to find out what happens.

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Quote #64416

It comes a point in which you don't know if you write books or the books write you

Author: Robin Sacredfire
Quote #170714

Don't be limited by your limitations.

Author: Sharon Law Tucker
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Vampires are fond of their games. But the games that They play are different than the variants that

Author: Nenia Campbell
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Recent global challenges suggest the themes in "The RISING SEDITION" foreshadow fiction becoming rea

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Quote #486153

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Author: Robert Motherwell
Quote #140027

No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the gr

Author: George R.R. Martin
Quote #65377

When life's surface reality seems to get too challenging and you can't think your way out of your re

Author: Sue Ziang
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Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human ne

Author: Leo Tolstoy
Quote #420946

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Author: John Lyly
Quote #150343

A catalyst by definition creates a reaction, but itself remains unchanged. Be a positive catalyst fo

Author: Michele Jennae
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The happening that happened was that I met this girl ...

Author: Markus Zusak
Quote #328851

Only those with a conscience can find an action unconscionable.

Author: F.D. Crandall
Quote #183285

Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and controlled

Author: Ann Brashares
Quote #56776

Sharpen and trust your judgement: learn when spending is a shrewd investment and when it is merely a

Author: Rasheed Ogunlaru
Quote #86701

Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come. It won't be the end of all things to comeEach t

Author: Napz Cherub Pellazo
Quote #445959

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Author: Plato
Quote #212068

So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understan

Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
Quote #481139

I truly believe that we're about to enter a second golden age of design. The first one was in the '5

Author: Yves Behar
Quote #292760

I’ll tell you, but it’s a whole book.

Author: Gordon Merrick
Quote #455889

When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my

Author: Orhan Pamuk
Quote #34725

It is my wish to die of unique causes, perhaps in a high-speed tricycle crash, a bizarre stapling in

Author: Paula Poundstone
Quote #498313

I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

Author: Fra Angelico
Quote #175395

Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. . . Life is pu

Author: Maya Angelou
Quote #405165

No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light odd and uncertain ways in which

Author: Sir Arthur Helps