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George Moore
Wrong way
Seems
Reasonable
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If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.
Rita Dove
Find
Love
Read
Reading
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God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.
George Sand
God abandons
Courage
Shut up
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Africans should be talking and ask questions, like why does America and Russia have the right to veto votes? These countries talk about democracy and yet are not democratic themselves.
Femi Kuti
Talking
Ask questions
Veto votes
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My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.
Rita Dove
Bread
Butter
Favorite
May
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The people who raised us left Themselves in Us, some in tiny particles and some a whole lot. It would take certain events for those particles to reveal themselves. Be careful my dear, Not all attributes are Yours
Timi Dakolo
People
Be careful
Reveal
Particles
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I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.
Richard Powers
Between
Big
Books
Components
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I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.
Richard Powers
Because
Big
Connects
Everything
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I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselves to go at it and have a good time. I think that's what I'm doing through music. It's not about 'I'm from here and you're from there.' It's about unity.
Ricky Martin
About
China
Delhi
Doing
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Fatigue
Indeed
Judging
Number
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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
Marianne Moore
Appraisal
Appraise
Blunder
Cannot
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They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
Norman Douglas
All
Anything
Cease
Neighbors
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Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.
Hal Borland
Nature
Simple
Reduced
Words
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I have begun the 'History of England' by Mr. Hume. It seems to me very interesting, though it is necessary to recollect that it is a Protestant who has written it.
Marie Antoinette
Begun
England
History
Interesting
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If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.
Marie Curie
Adventure
Anthony
Around
Curiosity
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We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
Marilyn Manson
Actually
Being
Comfortable
People
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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Robert A. Heinlein
Any
Anything
Black
Cat
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There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.
Robert Burns
Conscience
Frame
Man
Me
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People only hate what they see in themselves.
Marilyn Manson
People
Hate
Only
What
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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson
Corrupt
Cynics
Equally
Everybody
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Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson
About
Angry
Anyone
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Philadelphia merely seems dull because it's next to exciting Camden, New Jersey.
Robert Anton Wilson
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Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.
Robert Benchley
Also
Although
Back
Bother
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There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them
Robert Benchley
Analyze
Go
Humor
People
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Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
Marian Wright Edelman
Become
Best
Children
Convinced
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Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.
Marian Wright Edelman
Been
Birth
Children
Consequences
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If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
Richard Dawkins
Atheists
Authority
Automatically
Beliefs
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It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
Robert E. Howard
Art
Because
Culture
Education
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…More needs to be done especially to address gender based violence which seems to be more pronounced recently.
Aisha Buhari
Done
Especially
Address gender
More pronounced
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Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.
Richard Dawkins
About
Among
Argue
Critics
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More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.
Robert Orben
American
Auto
Back
Before
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Tight place
Goes against
Cannot hold
Give up
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For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
So inconsistent
Human nature
Undertake
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Telling a joke is risk taking. Younger people are more insecure and not willing to put themselves on the line, so a quick one-liner is much safer.
Robert Orben
Insecure
Joke
Line
More
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The fool is not he who asks what and when he/ she doesn’t know. The fool is he/she that is so confident that they don’t ask out of pride, so they don’t seem dumb and they still end up making fools of themselves!
Audu Maikori
Fool
Who ask
Confident
Pride
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Acting is the most bizarre profession. You can stay in it for years and not really be in it and be waiting for someone to give you an opportunity. It's like when I watch 'American Idol' and see people who have been told to believe in themselves at all costs: It's not always a good idea.
Lauren Graham
Acting
Always
American
American Idol
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Laurence Sterne
Men
Pursuit
Rest
Themselves
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Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
Laurence Sterne
Companion
Lay
Lays
Many
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
Leon Trotsky
Back
Character
Conditions
Defined
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The dynamic of revolutionary events is directly determined by swift, intense, and passionate changes in the psychology of classes which have already formed themselves before the revolution.
Leon Trotsky
Before
Changes
Classes
Determined
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Young ones must have the fear of God in them, they must respect themselves and others, they must respect their profession, they must have the love of God, and obey the laws of the land. They mustn’t be involved in criminal activities that would stain their family name, and society.
King Sunny Ade
Young ones
Fear
God
Respect themselves
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I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves because then they just get labeled.
Charlize Theron
I think
Women
Very scared
Celebrate
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When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn't get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems.
Liam Payne
Although
Any
Born
Brought
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When I think about it, I do start to worry about this whole social media thing. It does make me uncomfortable; kids should be out, living their lives, getting out and enjoying themselves.
Liam Payne
About
Does
Enjoying
Getting
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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Havelock Ellis
Men
Know themselves
Longer fools
Wisdom
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The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
Havelock Ellis
Art
Dancing
Stands
Express themselves
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Havelock Ellis
Parent
Train
Children
Equal importance
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If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.
Lillian Hellman
Beginning
Believe
Did
End
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman
About
Advice
Give
Had
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They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman
About
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