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You felt it as a depth of ease in certain boys, their innate, affable assurance that they would not have to struggle for a place in the world; that is already reserved for them. Tobias Wolff
Michael Faraday quote: "A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong."
A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong. Michael Faraday
I could have. What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything. Paulo Coelho
Nately was instantly up in arms again. "There is nothing so absurd about risking your life for your country!" he declared."Isn't there?" asked the old man. "What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be... Joseph Heller
Erich Segal quote: "I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he..."
I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said."Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps. Erich Segal
Say on, sayers! sing on, singers! Delve! mould! pile the words of the earth! Work on, age after age, nothing is to be lost, It may have to wait long, but it will certainly come in use, When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear. Walt Whitman
Men are biological. Women are biological. We pretend our minds are in control, but that’s a very tenuous control at best, and a civilized society can’t be built on uncontrolled biology. I see it in my work: intelligence betrayed by lust, by jealousy, by macho ownership; otherwise trustworthy men who can’t be trusted at all around women, or vice versa. Hell, look at Congress. Well-intentioned, progressive, admired law-makers who end up losing it all because they can’t control how they... Sheri S. Tepper
Don DeLillo quote: "It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line. I..."
It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line. I assume you know that, he said. Don DeLillo
Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic. Nick Hornby
Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway. Donna Tartt
I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary. Alan Moore
And when I say that is certainly true, that our marriage is over. I know what else she will say: "Then you must save it." And even though I know it's hopeless- there's absolutely nothing left to save-I'm afraid if I tell her that, she'll still persuade me to try. Amy Tan
Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It’s another part of the twentieth-century mind. It’s the world seen from inside. We’ve come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. Don DeLillo
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise. Charlotte Bronte
William Wilberforce quote: "We are too young to realize that certain things are..."
We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway. William Wilberforce

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