As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.

Author: Simon Schama

Author: Simon Schama

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My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage

Author: Naveen Jain
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In order to stand well in the eyes of the community it is necessary to come up to a certain somewh

Author: Thorstein Veblen
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its desti

Author: Maya Angelou
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There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution kn

Author: Robert A. Heinlein
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Still humanity is in her infancy, so often we engage in fighting to destroy ourself.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Shower the darkness with loveand watch light illuminate.

Author: Melody Lee
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Let your kindness, your compassion and your listening ear speaks itself.

Author: Euginia Herlihy
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People will rather pass by the weak, the lame, the beggars, the orphans, the tormented, the widows a

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as

Author: Steve Carell
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Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Author: William Blake
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There was some little local controversy too, about a fundraising effort called Suzie's Closet--folks

Author: Ben H. Winters
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Waldo was not alone by any means in trembling over an unjust plight. With the recent uproar over dru

Author: Donald Jeffries
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I meant it when I said I didn’t believe in love at first sight. It takes time to really, truly fall

Author: Claudia Gray
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I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I e

Author: Chuck Palahniuk
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An individual can’t create anything itself. All of our dreams come true with the cooperation and co-

Author: Hina Hashmi
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The achievement of the goal is only a stepping-stone to the next, bigger and better goal. It never s

Author: John Patrick Hickey
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Your faith requires your action to back it up. Choose to see what part you must participate in to se

Author: Dionna L. Hayden
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Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

Author: Lisa Murkowski
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There's no such thing as too late. There are different roles for different ages, assuming an actress

Author: Ayelet Zurer
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I can kill a bad guy, but I can't save anyone. I'm not a hero. All I am is a killer. A dead killer w

Author: Samuel Engelen
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Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and becom

Author: Simona Panova
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Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never g

Author: Jill Scott
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Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.

Author: Dottie Walters
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The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a me

Author: David Horsey
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This was in the good old days, when monsters were fantasy.

Author: Hollis Seamon
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I think we carry home on our backs.

Author: Jodi Lynn Anderson
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A person of little knowledge Grows old as a plough-ox grows old.His fleshes increases

Author: Unknown
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If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is t

Author: Peter Zumthor
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Poetry without words, you are, the beat to my hearts rhythm.

Author: N'Zuri Za Austin
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Oh my gosh, don’t you both look pretty!” We looked like rejects from the auditions for The Sound of

Author: Joss Stirling
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When to others it's not lying. It's privacy.

Author: Brian Spellman
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I've fixed my feelings into durable wordswhen they could have been spent on tenderness

Author: Jorge Luis Borges
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For every quote, there is one that challenges it.

Author: R. Alistair
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Lies can open up the doors to imagination.

Author: Lionel Suggs
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I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death.

Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Often a woman that doesn’t have any business being in a fight is there because their ego thinks it c

Author: Shannon L. Alder
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The collective impact of these failures has been a complete erosion of ethical standards, ultimately

Author: John Doe
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Try to imagine what the rising generation could become if these five righteous patterns were practic

Author: Larry R. Lawrence
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What I'm trying to say, Brooke Overland, is that I want to be your nanny."That's seriously the most

Author: C.M. Stunich
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Eating a can be the weight that pulls you under or the life raft. It's your choice.

Author: Nancy S. Mure
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...My "poodle" brain craves the adventures that happen during training and racing. Days-long relays,

Author: Dana L. Ayers
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I didn't doubt for a moment that she had read them all, or that they were the right books to own. Fu

Author: Julian Barnes
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Preemptive strike n.A blow or punch delivered by military aircraft to a target who is suspected of b

Author: Leslie Starr O'Hara
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Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.

Author: Francine Rivers
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Raising a child is a time of RAPID CHANGE! From the ages of 0 to 19, a PARENT can age over 30 years!

Author: Tanya Masse
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(...)we all recognize a likeness of Shakespeare the instant we see one, and yet we don’t really know

Author: Bill Bryson
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Day in and day out we learn to train and grow as Guardians. We do as we're told and follow the rules

Author: Wendy Owens
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Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same

Author: James Wolcott
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In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the el

Author: Juan Williams
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Maybe she has a wrinkle on her face in just the right place and I find it attractive. Maybe she says

Author: Garry Crystal
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Always try to align your loyalties and commitment with the largest scope of the context you find you

Author: Clifford Cohen
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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear

Author: Cyril Connolly
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Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

Author: Unknown
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The earth is my home, the journey is my destination.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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He thought that fat boys were probably only allowed to love pretty girls inside. If he told anyone h

Author: Stephen King
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To fulfill the promise of economic opportunity, we must remain true to the principle that collective

Author: Thomas Perez
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Infighting would be stupid, since, y'know, claws and teeth.

Author: Michael R. Underwood
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And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and or

Author: G.K. Chesterton
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By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and th

Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
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Let the one in least fear, lead.

Author: Unknown
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When suffering comes, learn to trust each day into God’s hands . . . let your lips be filled with pr

Author: Billy Graham
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I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and en

Author: Charlize Theron
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My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he

Author: Claire Denis
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When you're dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to what they don't say than what they do.

Author: DaShanne Stokes
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If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books wr

Author: Aaron Patzer
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The work of each individual contributes to a totality, and so becomes an undying part of the totalit

Author: Isaac Asimov
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For Alex to be enveloped into one of New York State's blue-ribbon families helped put to bed a lifet

Author: Melissa de la Cruz
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I'm not into those kind of rivalries. I remember standing out in front of Stratford, minding my own

Author: Bill Hicks
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Compassion brings us peace of mind. It brings a smile to our face and genuine smiles bring us closer

Author: Auliq-Ice
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You may think you've hit rock bottom in your life but guess what—there's more crud underneath those

Author: Richelle E. Goodrich
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Your ADMIRERS make you STRONG and courageous. Your DETRACTORS make you SUCCESSFUL.

Author: Sanjeev Himachali
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I want to become the favorite song of my own uprising. I want to see the most forgotten, unused part

Author: Angelos Michalopoulos
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One common thing about great achievers is that, they keep asking useful questions every day. They as

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
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When a man says "I know what I mean, but I can't express it," he generally does not know what he mea

Author: Sydney J. Harris
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The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression t

Author: Miranda Otto
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Faith is a flaming light.

Author: Unknown
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You could make friends with a possessed unicorn, couldn’t you?”“Probably so. We both fart rainbows.

Author: Jamie Farrell
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Descriptions of dreams have a dubious place in storytelling. For these are dreams which have been im

Author: Murray Bail
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I'm really close to my family, and I really want one of my own. But the wedding, it's not necessary

Author: Julia Restoin Roitfeld
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Out of all the ridiculous religion stories - which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous - the sillies

Author: Trey Parker
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Dare to believe that there is something better for you and that you can change your future and make

Author: Stephen Richards
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The lecturer points to Dietrich Bonhoeffer's decision to get engaged while in prison as his "positiv

Author: J. Rufus Fears
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We must make tough decisions to see if it’s worth it in the end.

Author: Dominic Riccitello
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When I create a masterpiece I feel alive! When my creation is revered I feel immortal.

Author: Euphoria Godsent
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To die hating them, that was freedom

Author: George Orwell
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Thought assists memory in enabling it to order the material it has assembled. So that in a systemati

Author: Jan Potocki
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In the tell-me-again times, (…) when my mom and I lived in a little apartment in a little building d

Author: Erica Lorraine Scheidt
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Truth, independent of the Self, is irrelevant to the biological existence of human life.

Author: Abhijit Naskar
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Give people strength and encouragement, build them up with good words!

Author: Robbie Thomas
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Hope is a form of conscious dream making.

Author: Kilroy J. Oldster
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Love is not jealous, angry or afraid.

Author: Stephen Richards
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It's so free to know that I do not have to compensate or make excuses for being treated poorly in re

Author: Renae A. Sauter
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Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

Author: John Connolly
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Life stand still here.

Author: Virginia Woolf
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I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel

Author: Edith Sitwell
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How do I negotiate my way across life with a system that I find so violent yet it seems so normal to

Author: Malebo Sephodi
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My idea of success has little to do with fame. I just wanted to know if I could play with the best m

Author: Artie Kane
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The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she w

Author: Nella Larsen
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Make a promise to yourself right now, that you will choose your thoughts and words wisely, that you

Author: Miya Yamanouchi