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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

Terms Like That Humane
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

Libraries Are The One
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Wats Elections Both Are
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
Faith Personal Real
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You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

Edge Emotion Fear Feel
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.

Boldly Chance Get Grab
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My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

Anything Backbone Been Difficult
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

Always Dream Fight Full
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

What Keeps You Going
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I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

Fearsome Mind Throw My
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

Hopeful To Embrace One
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

Small Change Wonders These
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Fiction Essays Can Create
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I don't want to be that girl who has that same style all the time where the music always sounds exactly the same, and you always know it's her.

Always Exactly ExactlyTheSame Girl
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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

What A Writer Do
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When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

When You Pick Up
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My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.

Am Anymore Because Cuban
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Empathy Really The Opposite
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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

There's Always Part Your
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I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

Don't Understand How Good
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

Good Novels Fiction Creates
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

Literature Sucks You Into
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My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .

Aim Concentrated Women Learn
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It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.

Sunrise Next Step Heaven
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. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and society.

Woman True Engrossed Dress
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I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.

Passion Oxygen Chemistry Book
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One man's mind differs from another man's mind far more widely than all women's minds differ from all men.

Man Minds Differ Widely
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

Always Seen The World
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

Grew Up Aware All
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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Suppose That My Central
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I have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading, to digital abuse that I deal with on a daily basis. I'd like to tell the kids that are being bullied that no one should have to deal with the abuse, ever!

Abuse Basis Being Bullied
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“I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion”

Regards Education Task Survival
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

Used Think Religion Just
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“There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life.
Exist Everyone Passion Thirst
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.

Readers Fiction Read Think
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“Education must enable young people to effect what they have recognized to be right, despite hardships, despite dangers, despite inner skepticism, despite boredom, and despite mockery from the world. . . .”

Education Young Effect Right
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“The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends to change the balance of power in a youth's inner life with the result that compassion can become the master motive.”

Experience Fellow Danger Training
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“The passion of rescue reveals the highest dynamic of the human soul.”
Passion Rescue Reveal Dynamic
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“Whenever you have to deal with a boy who is a rebel, remember that you must not fail at some time or other to get him to face the question, Are you going to be a fighter or quarreler?”

Remember Boy Rebel Fail
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“We are all better than we know. If only we can be brought to realize this, we may never be prepared to settle for anything less”
Better Realize Prepared Settle
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

It's Funny Thing People
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For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.

For Me Writing Always
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

Every Time Step Onto
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

Motherhood So Sentimentalised Romanticism
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“It is a sin of the soul to force young people into opinions ... but it is culpable neglect not to impel young people into experiences.”

Sin Soul Young Force
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I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

Love Developing Children Characters
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

After Poisonous Bible Was
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“How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?”

Pull Strongholds Satan Strength
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I don't have to try to be perfect because I know that my fans like me for who I am. They like me because I am weird and kind of funky, but still really calm.

Am Because Calm Fans
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“There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.”
Kinds People World Black
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