I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
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I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East. ~Bernie Sanders
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Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. ~John Clellon Holmes
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It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ~John Desmond Bernal
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Percy is the most powerful demigod I've ever met. No offense to you guys but it's true. ~Rick Riordan
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The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process. I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult. ~Beth Gibbons
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We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love. ~Suzanne Collins
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Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese. ~Suzanne Collins
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The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up. ~Susan Cain
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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the "Book of Job": Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit. ~Anne Lamott
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it. ~Richard Dawkins
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Honesty is the best privacy policy. ~Internet Proverb
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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Every step of life shows much caution is required. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There's a degree of deception in silence. ~Don Lemon
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It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. ~Hermann Hesse
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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