America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

Author: Anna Quindlen

Author: Anna Quindlen

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As well as remembering too little, I have seen too much

Author: Rosie Thomas
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If they come to this forest, to us here, seeking shelter from the havoc that has been brought upon t

Author: Madison Thorne Grey
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Life is a form of continuous sufferings and lies.

Author: Yahia Kareem
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They were both from the real world, their own distinct ones, but I was somewhere in limbo. Set apart

Author: Amina Gautier
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Somehow I find the energy to continue the run. Part of the high that comes after finishing a long ru

Author: Shannon Mullen
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I ended your experiment. Because you're not a scientist. You're a monster. I'm not leaving any of th

Author: Rachel Caine
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I demolish my bridges behind me ... then there is no choice but forward.

Author: Firdtjof Nansen
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Foggy nights bring some comfort.He can get lost in the mistand there is no one to stare or question.

Author: Susie Clevenger
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A life lived outside of one's giftedness is a complete and utter travesty. It deprives the world of

Author: Shirley Houston
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Twas a cold Yuletide evening, and I wandered the stacks, shelving multiple titles that the patrons b

Author: David Davis
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A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

Author: Ella Leya
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You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

Author: Tim Cahill
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Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or el

Author: Neal Stephenson
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That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all ki

Author: Hermann Hesse
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Don’t you dare focus your energy on the 99 reasons something can’t be done. Focus on the one thing y

Author: Toni Sorenson
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These are times when sympathetic joy comes naturally, but in a complex relationship the heart may no

Author: Sharon Salzberg
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surroun

Author: Rachel Corrie
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Friends are the best anti-depressants; with only positive effects, no side-effects.

Author: Piyush Kaviraj
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Don’t try to be just a success

Author: Unknown
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The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more com

Author: Martin Seligman
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Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty.

Author: Nikolai Gogol
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There was a time when my soul was wandering through the deepest darkness…

Author: Haruki Murakami
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It seemed at momemts, When I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down to meet the

Author: Anne Rice
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The historian is a prophet looking backwards.

Author: Friedrich Schlegel
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Let us rise in mighty strength to build the nation.

Author: Unknown
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She is made up of depths even the ocean couldn't fathom.

Author: Jessica Katoff
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Life is full of adventure. There's no such thing as a clear pathway.

Author: Guy Laliberte
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Take the stones that failure throws at you and build legacies the world will always remember you for

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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Quite like religious fundamentalism, educational fundamentalism is based upon bookish creeds created

Author: Abhijit Naskar
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I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

Author: Vincent van Gogh
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.

Author: Naveen Jain
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I want to touch you.''And if you did touch me, what then?''I would find a language of beginning.

Author: Jeanette Winterson
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Our first stage of existence is truly honored by the magnificent view of our destination.

Author: Sergio Tinoco
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To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living

Author: George Herbert Mead
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Appreciate and find ways to invest in yourself

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

Author: Louis Pasteur
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You cannot convince someone to see something that they do not want to see, no matter how much you kn

Author: Doe Zantamata
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Stop expecting the world to affirm you as a person. Half of the world will like you and the other ha

Author: Shannon L. Alder
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Learn the difference between good and great and then chose greatness.

Author: Jeffrey Fry
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Someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To unders

Author: Harold Brodkey
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Genius is finding the invisible link between things.

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
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I do not know what, in the end, makes a person who they are. If we`re all born one way, or if we onl

Author: Alexandra Bracken
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Boys keep working over your goals these girls ain't going anywhere.

Author: Moosa Rahat
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Writers were as parasitic, she supposed, as the spore itself.

Author: Joe Hill
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People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best da

Author: Colum McCann
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Grandmother was like an opal. You could never be sure which colors were really there and which were

Author: Michelle Moran
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Only faith and restraint against the tyrant damns the saint.

Author: Neil Gevisser
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O Hero, what a Hero hadst thou been.

Author: William Shakespeare
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We are living in the Selfie Society of Me.

Author: Ken Poirot
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If love is the greatest gift of all-and I believe it is- then the greatest privilege of all is to be

Author: Laura Schroff
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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Author: Khalil Gibran
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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unle

Author: Johnny Carson
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Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.

Author: Miguel de Cervantes
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For the men and women of the FBI, bravery is reflected not only in the physical courage often necess

Author: Robert Mueller
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Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

Author: Jef Raskin
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What are you doing?” Her voice shook.“Whatever I want, sweetheart.

Author: Cherise Sinclair
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Physical well-being necessitates listening to what you already know, and then taking it seriously en

Author: Darrell Calkins
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I've been living in the shadow of empty people for far too long. Now I need to find chests full of w

Author: Anita Krizzan
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It’s you,” he whispers. There is wonder in his voice. “Is it?” I whisper back, my voice trembling wi

Author: Marie Lu
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Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener

Author: Terry Pratchett
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Apollo has something to teach us as we enter a new century of genetic modification, artificial intel

Author: Andrew Smith
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Since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to ligh

Author: Charles Bukowski
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Don't hate it's too big a burden to bear.

Author: Martin Luther King
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Even the most terrible beginnings can turn into beautiful endings when the direction is changed.

Author: Apoorve Dubey
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We may not know what each day has in store for us. We could be gone tomorrow. Any minute could truly

Author: Grace Gealey
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In reality, those who cheat are indeed the ones who get cheated. Those who are cheated will gain exp

Author: Dada Bhagwan
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I'm sorry. I can't serve him that item," the waitress said, only somewhat surprising her since she h

Author: R.L. Mathewson
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Dear Karma, I really hate you right now, you made your point.

Author: Ottilie Weber
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

Author: Cormac McCarthy
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Charlotte." Kate attempted to distract the child from her endless questions and held up the glass tu

Author: Clay Griffith
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You don't have to live in anyone's shadow. Allow your unique characteristics to shine forth and Illu

Author: Amaka Imani Nkosazana
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Maybe your sperm is so mighty, you shoot magic bullets."His intent expression splintered, and he bur

Author: Thea Harrison
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Trench dirt didn't always wash out, I am sure.

Author: Sebastian Barry
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Individuality should not translate to narcissism. Realizing the strength of individuality is an acco

Author: Amitav Chowdhury
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The mountain of superstition has to be leveled for our people to taste a fresh breath of life in Chr

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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She held out her hands, palms up, the white fingers lightly spread, and with a barely audible click,

Author: William Gibson
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There is a vase difference between people who say they have Dreams and people who set Goals ....70℅

Author: Chief-Icons Rashid Bawah
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I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable ... I can't help it it's my personality.

Author: Jay Chiat
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Twittering just seemed to be people telling other people what they were doing--getting in the shower

Author: Kate Atkinson
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Author: Pearl S. Buck
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One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

Author: Alan Rickman
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To accept a little death is worse than death itself.

Author: Frank Herbert
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The wounded recognized the wounded.

Author: Nora Roberts
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The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the w

Author: Andre Rieu
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The bottom line is, if you're pregnant, don't travel to an area where Zika is spreading.

Author: Tom Frieden
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Personal branding is distinctively marketing your uniqueness.

Author: Bernard Kelvin Clive
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You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.

Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
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We have 40 people over for Thanksgiving, 30 people for Easter lunch, 35 people on Christmas Eve. Peo

Author: Sonya Walger
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When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

Author: Angelina Jolie
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If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inherita

Author: Mahatma Gandhi
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Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular resu

Author: Roger Staubach
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The most dangerous enemy is the one who can easily make friends with his potential victims!

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
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For [W. B.] Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry as poetry a kind of magic, and the object o

Author: Kathleen Raine
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Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.

Author: William Arthur Ward
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I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I

Author: Jewel
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Just because you don’t know how on Earth something might be achieved doesn’t mean you shouldn’t allo

Author: Silvia Hartmann
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Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

Author: Holly Black
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Normal....What the majority of people look, act, and talk and like.So what if the majority became wh

Author: Catherine of Genoa
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The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people,

Author: Frank Church