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Ayn Rand quote: "Love is our response to our highest values, and can be nothing..."
Love is our response to our highest values, and can be nothing else. Ayn Rand
Sherman Alexie quote: "I'm a poet who can whine in meter"
I'm a poet who can whine in meter Sherman Alexie
doubtful of what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day. Barack Obama
You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made of sterner stuff. You want, as it were, a sparring-partner, some one with whom you can quarrel happily with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick, but will be there with the return wallop. P. G. Wodehouse
Isaac Asimov quote: "An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways."
An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways. Isaac Asimov
Will Rogers quote: "An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a..."
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. Will Rogers
And what there is to learn from almost any human experience is that your own interests usually do not come first where other people are concerned--even the people who love you--and that is all right. It can be lived with. Richard Ford
I do think free will is sewn into everything we do; you can't cross a street, light a cigarette, drop saccharine in your coffee without really doing it. Yet the possible alternatives that life allows us are very few, often there must be none. I've never thought there was any choice for me about writing poetry. No doubt if I used my head better, ordered my life better, worked harder etc., the poetry would be improved, and there must be many lost poems, innumerable accidents and ill-done... Robert Lowell
I remember a little later wondering why things always turn out to be diametrically opposed to what you expect them to be. It's no good even trying to predict what this opposite will be because it always fools you and turns out to be the opposite of that, if you see what I mean. If you think this is geometrically impossible all I can say is that you don't know my life Elaine Dundy
They say this city can absorb anyone. It does seem that every nationality is here in some part. There are dreamers and poets and landscape painters with dirty noses and wanderers like me who came here by chance and never left. They are all looking for something, travelling the world and theseven seas but looking for a reason to stay. I am not looking, I've found what it is I want.........I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means Ireview my future and my past in the light of... Jeanette Winterson
Chris Rock quote: "Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing."
Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing. Chris Rock
There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness. Thomas Hardy
It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. Thomas Huxley
To be in any form, what is that? (round and round we go, all of us, and ever come back thither,) If nothing lay more develop'd the quahung in it's callous shell were enough. Mine is no callous shell. I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop, they seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me. I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and I am happy, to touch my person to someone else's is about as much as I can stand. Walt Whitman
The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals. William Blum

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