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Jean Paul quote: "Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and..."

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

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Somewhere or other there must surely beThe face not seen, the voice not heard,The heart that not yet - never yet? ah me!Made answer to my word.Somewhere or other, may be near or far;Past land and sea, clean out of sight;Beyond the wandering moon, beyond the starThat tracks her night by night.Somewhere or other, may be far or near;With just a wall, a hedge, between;With just the last leaves of the dying yearFallen on a turf grown green. Christina G. Rossetti
Talib Kweli quote: "Once you're signed to a label you compromise."
Once you're signed to a label you compromise. Talib Kweli
Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about."Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit. Orson Scott Card
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask...."
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution. Henry David Thoreau
When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic. Tony Campolo
A. N. Wilson quote: "Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself..."
Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. A. N. Wilson
The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the nth and meek to the nth. C. S. Lewis
Ang Lee quote: "I'm not a master of films, I'm rather a slave."
I'm not a master of films, I'm rather a slave. Ang Lee
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I'm not going to run, I'm going to stand here and watch. Every blow will cut into my heart, and tell me who and what you are. Oscar Hammerstein II
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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement. Elia Kazan
Elections do have consequences, and those we elect and far too often re-elect have forgotten how government works and for whom they work for, and that an ever growing, power hungry state and federal government are not the answer to the problem, but 80% of the time are the problem. David Pratt
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead. R. Buckminster Fuller
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen. Pliny the Elder