I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled.

Sylvia Plath

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If I ever go to West Africa, it would probably be for a free concert. I would want to do something for the people there. Maybe we can make a whole event, the way Bob Marley would have done it. Just for the people. And if they climb over the gate, let them climb over the gate.

Rihanna

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People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Emily Dickinson

Develop Hard Hard Times Muscles

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Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.

Sylvia Plath

Action Constructive Ndecision Reverie

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Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing - and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.

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Am Descriptive Emotions Greatly

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I think I'm like most people - we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don't deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it's very hard not to be fearless.

Rihanna

Come Complete Control Deserve

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There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

Sylvia Plath

Bath Cure Few Few Things

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I'm not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they're going through. I don't know if that's the healthiest thing, but it's the truth.

Rihanna

Generally Going Know More

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There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.

Sylvia Plath

Am Fool Hospital I Am

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All my favorite artists and fashion icons and models are from the Nineties. Everybody was just so fearless.

Rihanna

Artists Everybody Fashion Favorite

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A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth.

Sylvia Plath

Axis Babies Baby Been

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My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn't trust life insurance salesmen.

Sylvia Plath

Because Died Dying Father

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My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own.

Sylvia Plath

Atlantic Childhood Clearest Cold

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Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody solicitous will bundle me into a car and drive me to the nearest briny horizon.

Sylvia Plath

About Bundle Car Childhood

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R. A. Salvatore

Imagination Loved World Thinking

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Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want you, need you: the belief in you and love and mankind.

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Belief Believe Beyond Force

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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

R. A. Salvatore

Books Connect Even Excite

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Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions).

Sylvia Plath

America Arrogant England Her

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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.

R. A. Salvatore

Bad By The Time Did Get

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Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Emily Dickinson

Breath Creation Death Initial

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I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.

R. A. Salvatore

College Done Field Fire

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I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.

Sylvia Plath

Cold Did Ghost Had

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God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

Emily Dickinson

Bush Charms Else Fear

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If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on 'Alice in Wonderland' and believing in magic for years and years.

Sylvia Plath

About Alice Being Believing

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I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.

R. A. Salvatore

Developed Had Hopes Intended

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I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Emily Dickinson

Had Hurry Mother Never

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I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

R. A. Salvatore

Always Been Die Fighter

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We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.

Emily Dickinson

Affection Became Came Child

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So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.

R. A. Salvatore

Again Book Editing Few

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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

R. A. Salvatore

Alive Amazing Amazing Experience Characters

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In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

Emily Dickinson

Broken Hopes Lest Life

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Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I didn't either!

Sylvia Plath

Artist Author Badly Either

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I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

Sylvia Plath

Adjectives Advances Being Felt

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I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

R. A. Salvatore

About Away Coming Entire

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I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost like a caricature series from Dickens to see our head table at Newnham.

Sylvia Plath

Almost Among Cambridge Caricature

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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

E. B. White

Account Always Another Complicated

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Sometimes leaders slide from the role of freedom fighter into the presidency, which they may be unsuited for, but everyone accepts it until they hit the bump in the road.

Kofi Annan

Accepts Bump Everyone Fighter

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Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.

Kofi Annan

Going Just Know Provoke

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Often we mistake stability, in terms of security and economic activity, to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar: rule of law and respect for human rights.

Kofi Annan

Activity Country Doing Economic

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The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country.

Kofi Annan

Colonial Country Fight Gain

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Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.

R. A. Salvatore

Against Also Authors Both

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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

E. B. White

Democracy Half More People

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Greatness begins with a vision..healthy passion gives it motion.

Apostle Suleman Johnson

Vision Passion Begins Motion

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Incredibly Job Lonely Writing

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The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.

Kofi Annan

Arab Spring Bit Country

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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.

R. A. Salvatore

Any Beyond Book Business

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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

E. B. White

Cracked Found Genius More

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There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don't have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job.

Sylvia Plath

About America Career Job

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My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation: ideally, not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work.

Kofi Annan

Accept Advice Allow Democratic

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I looked on my stomach and saw Frieda Rebecca, white as flour with the cream that covers new babies, funny little dark squiggles of hair plastered over her head, with big, dark-blue eyes.

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Babies Big Covers Cream

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Sylvia Plath

If I ever go to West Africa, it would probably be for a free concert. I would want to do something for the people there. Maybe we can make a whole event, the way Bob Marley would have done it. Just for the people. And if they climb over the gate, let them climb over the gate.

Rihanna

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Emily Dickinson

Sylvia Plath

Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing - and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.

Sylvia Plath

I think I'm like most people - we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don't deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it's very hard not to be fearless.

Rihanna

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

Sylvia Plath

I'm not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they're going through. I don't know if that's the healthiest thing, but it's the truth.

Rihanna

Sylvia Plath

All my favorite artists and fashion icons and models are from the Nineties. Everybody was just so fearless.

Rihanna

A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth.

Sylvia Plath

My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn't trust life insurance salesmen.

Sylvia Plath

My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own.

Sylvia Plath

Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody solicitous will bundle me into a car and drive me to the nearest briny horizon.

Sylvia Plath

R. A. Salvatore

Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want you, need you: the belief in you and love and mankind.

Sylvia Plath

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

R. A. Salvatore

Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions).

Sylvia Plath

It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.

R. A. Salvatore

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Emily Dickinson

I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.

R. A. Salvatore

Sylvia Plath

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

Emily Dickinson

If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on 'Alice in Wonderland' and believing in magic for years and years.

Sylvia Plath

I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.

R. A. Salvatore

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Emily Dickinson

R. A. Salvatore

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.

Emily Dickinson

So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.

R. A. Salvatore

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

R. A. Salvatore

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

Emily Dickinson

Sylvia Plath

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

Sylvia Plath

I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

R. A. Salvatore

I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost like a caricature series from Dickens to see our head table at Newnham.

Sylvia Plath

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

E. B. White

Sometimes leaders slide from the role of freedom fighter into the presidency, which they may be unsuited for, but everyone accepts it until they hit the bump in the road.

Kofi Annan

Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.

Kofi Annan

Often we mistake stability, in terms of security and economic activity, to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar: rule of law and respect for human rights.

Kofi Annan

The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country.

Kofi Annan

Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.

R. A. Salvatore