Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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I love layers! ~Alexander Wang
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. ~Democritus
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like. ~Alexander Payne
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The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be. ~Joe Sakic
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There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state. ~Isaac Asimov
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Two wrongs don't make a right. ~English Proverb
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same. ~Barbara Kingsolver
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Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence. ~Jay Duplass
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If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought. ~Dallas Willard
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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb
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There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die." ~Harriette Simpson Arnow
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Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
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Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill. ~S.M. Stirling
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Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ~John Wayne
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Were it not for fractures there would be no pottery. ~Arabic Proverb
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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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