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Djuna Barnes quote: "We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart."

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.

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Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better. Louisa May Alcott
We knew it was holy. Every sentence we cherished was sturdy and Biblical in its form, carved somehow by hand-dragged implement or slapped onto sheets by an inky key. For sentences were sculptural, were we the only ones who understood? Sentences were bodies, too, as horny as the flesh-envelopes we wore around the house all day. Jonathan Lethem
David Lynch quote: "Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea..."
Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day. David Lynch
Anne Sexton quote: "All day I've builta lifetime and nowthe sun sinks toundo it."
All day I've builta lifetime and nowthe sun sinks toundo it. Anne Sexton
You've got some very powerful countries: Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and others who have a genuine desire to see the euro zone straighten itself out. It's good for all of us, whether you're in the euro zone or not, to make sure that it doesn't lead to a fracturing. Nick Clegg
Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case. Vincent Bugliosi
Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scientific community that it would be harder for him to accept an idea that transformed the meaning of everything he knew. Even if it were true. Orson Scott Card
Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State. William Graham Sumner
I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be. Jodi Picoult
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I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes. Gloria Swanson
Under the United States Constitution, the federal government has no authority to hold states "accountable" for their education performance...In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats. Ron Paul
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I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me. Dick Dale
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "There are two different types of people in the world, those..."
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe. Friedrich Nietzsche
Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this “something” cannot be seen or heard or numbered or scientifically detected or counted. It’s what we leave in the minds of other people and what they leave in ours. Memory. The census doesn’t count it. Nothing counts without it. Robert Fulghum
For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of adventure to keep alive the soul of man. George Leigh Mallory