As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

Author: Marilyn Hacker

Author: Marilyn Hacker

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And all the best words together couldn't hold the happiness.

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Twinkle twinkle little star! How I wonder what you are Up above the world so high Like a diamond

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I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my

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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Author: Mao Zedong
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I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65

Author: George Foreman
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Those who love you the most, let yo bend your notes

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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the w

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Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses ar

Author: Mitch Kapor
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I got nervous at bulls and eagles,Trying to figure what shape Zeus might take f

Author: Ovid
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It’s quite simple. Death isn’t what we think it is. It isn’t life which ends but time which stops.

Author: Henri Rivière
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Only his eyes remain the same. Bronze, red-gold, like iron brought to blazing heat.

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All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we're told, and back then

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Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient

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That was his favorite thing about books—they took you off to other people’s lives an’ places, but yo

Author: Jan Karon
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No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to anc

Author: Erwin Schrödinger
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The way to Bliss is through Understanding, through Wisdom.

Author: Tony Samara
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When you plan something that is unpragmatic, it proves that you do not have a lot of knowledge about

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Blessings come into the areas of a person’s life, where he is absolutely obedient to God.

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Religion triggers a lot of emotions in me, most of which stem from being raised Jewish in a very Bap

Author: David Cross
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What's up with you? How come you're being like this?' Because it's the truth. This is the world we l

Author: Chuck Palahniuk
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The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled cr

Author: Joseph Conrad
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It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.

Author: Bible
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When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

Author: Thomas A. Edison
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If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn't make it so. Words and tho

Author: Lev Grossman
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The present and the future are about sense-making, about what we as humans value.

Author: Daniel Egger
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I was his exception, and as much as I had tried to fight my feelings, he was mine.

Author: Jamie McGuire
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A cheerful frame of mind reinforced by relaxation which in itself banishes fatigue is the medicin

Author: George Matthew Adams
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Do you believe that we have the ability to change destiny?

Author: Michelle Madow
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We just held each other for warmth. I cannot recall that we even spoke to one another. Such was our

Author: P.J. Whittlesea
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Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficul

Author: Sandra Day O'Connor
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How sad it would be to get to the end of life and realize God gave you wings, but you never used the

Author: Khrys Vaughan
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The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to b

Author: J.K. Rowling
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Unfortunately, the worst part of a product/service is the seller.

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At the Norman Invasion, the Saxon thanes were themselves humbled in turn; the manors were given a mo

Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
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In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness.

Author: Samuel Beckett
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As I remember my grandfather and those Christmas mornings he gave for a little girl's pleasure, I kn

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I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it a

Author: Kevin Smith
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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Author: George Sand
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Even when the moon shrinks and disappears, it shows itself again gradually. When ancient people saw

Author: Fuminori Nakamura
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I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be deat

Author: Annie Lennox
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Why would I want to take baby steps? Babies are shit at walking - think about it. To move forward I'

Author: Ruby Elliot
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If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compas

Author: Nhat Hanh
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Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a

Author: Paulo Coelho
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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness;

Author: John Keats
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I don't understand why some kids git a good school and mother and father and some don't. But Rita sa

Author: Sapphire
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Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room."She had l

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I love Nigerians because they are extra ordinary people they make impossible to be possible.

Author: Saminu Kanti
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Good night! Good night!Far flies the light;But still God's loveShall shine above,Making all bright,G

Author: Victor Hugo
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We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.

Author: George R.R. Martin
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It would be extremely naive to conclude anything other than the following: America's most vital secr

Author: Mike Pompeo
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If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it w

Author: Carl Sagan
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Age in itself gives substance — what has lasted becomes a thing worth keeping. An older poem's incre

Author: Jane Hirshfield
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Work is just a part of our Life, not vice versa. So Live life full time, work work, part time.

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She began stroking my ankles. I considered kicking her in the cunt.

Author: Samuel Beckett
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I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experi

Author: Brian Greene
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If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

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There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will

Author: Charlotte Eriksson
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To find stability within the world, one must first find stability within.

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The best things occur when you challenge yourself and face your fears. If you think of your greatest

Author: Miya Yamanouchi
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A lot of film people are like that– especially the ones below the line, the blue-collar guys, the gr

Author: Paul Auster
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I want you," she said."I told you so," he said.

Author: Loretta Chase
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As for the world system of evil, we are to be separated from it. This then is our problem: to associ

Author: Billy Graham
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It's never too late to come home," he said, and pulled me gently, insistently toward him."All you ha

Author: Joanne Harris
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The life of a vampire begins with the first bite.

Author: A.J. Gallant
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What though the radiance which was once so brightBe now for ever taken from my sight,Though nothing

Author: William Wordsworth
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If a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too?a sheep eats whatever it findseven a flower with thor

Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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The feeling or emotion of happiness or joy is always momentary, but it’s only your imaginations, tha

Author: Roshan Sharma
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All pleasure is a vice because seeking pleasure is what everyone does in life, and the worst vice of

Author: Fernando Pessoa
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She's sure, absolutely sure, that what she's waiting for will happen, just the way she wants it to;

Author: Lois Lowry
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Your love is the platform for my passion manifesto.

Author: Amanda Mosher
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The young nihilists," Dad called us."What are nihilists?""Nihilists believe that nothing has any mea

Author: Jesse Andrews
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They say love is blind . . . and marriage is an insritution. Well I'm nor ready for an instirurion

Author: Mae West
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No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days. Today was just a

Author: Jojo Moyes
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It is madness. But sometimes, madness is the only path forward.

Author: Anne Fortier
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Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and tr

Author: John Green
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Nobody's sweetheart is ugly.

Author: J. J. Vade
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Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Author: Donald Trump
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Cricket is about a lot more than playing by the rules, Mistry. It’s a gentleman’s game. Don’t you ev

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We are currently too attached to our worldly toys, rather than to the lessons our playing could impa

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Like your marriage, everything in the universe is trying to find its orbit. In the midst of this con

Author: Michael Ben Zehabe
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It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it. The amazing

Author: Adrien Brody
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How freeing of a thought: instead of worrying about leaving a legacy, to leave no trace of one's exi

Author: Kamand Kojouri
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Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, a

Author: Herman Melville
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Trust your instincts, know what you want, and believe in your ability to achieve it. Rules and conve

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He could sense in her the same spirit that ran in his veins. They were people with independent minds

Author: Mahendra Jakhar
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People decided that trees have no feelings

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Bargaining with God is pointless. He already has a thousand followers that will do what you bargaine

Author: Shannon L. Alder
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I always say too much when I'm talking to you--- that's one of the problems....

Author: Stephenie Meyer
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Children are angels in exile, so close to God. They haven't had time to separate from Him.Ali

Author: Davis Miller
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If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; an

Author: Amy Carmichael
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The terrible price of living, ain’t it? To live through others dying?

Author: J.D. Jordan
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I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.

Author: Carol Burnett
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The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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~I hope that in this year to come, YOU make mistakes. Because if YOU are making mistakes, then YOU a

Author: Neil Gaiman
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Night, I have discovered, has a faintly bitter taste, caused by its large ingredient of Un-attained

Author: Christopher Morley
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Sometimes the word 'gratitude' feels too thin to explain things.

Author: Dee Williams
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He's around the twist,' said Azalea. 'Breaking all the windows? He's mad.' to break all the windows

Author: Heather Dixon
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To brighten your vision, look at the positive side of life with great love.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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When the universe compels me toward the best path to take, it never leaves me with "maybe," "should

Author: Oprah Winfrey