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Louis L'Amour quote: "We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to..."
We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different. Louis L'Amour
He was a different Edward than the one I had known. And I felt all the more besotted by him. It would cause me physical pain to be separated from him now."(Bella Swan, Twilight) ~ Stephenie Meyer Stephenie Meyer
God, grant me serenity to accept those things I can't change, the courage to change those I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."-Division St. Studs Terkel
As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart. Leo Tolstoy
Films might get to you and your subconscious and make a little difference, but when the vigilante drum beats, the mob screams and the conformists go along with it. There have to be people who are non-conformists. Oliver Stone
Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community. Bell Hooks
Gao Xingjian quote: "Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your..."
Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such. Gao Xingjian
Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence. Oscar Wilde
Think, for example, of the words which you perhaps utter in this space of time. They are no longer part of this language. And in different surroundings the institution of money doesn’t exist either. Ludwig Wittgenstein
How can one explain the attraction terror holds for some minds? and why for intellectuals? . . .In a totalitarian and terrorist regime, man is no longer a unique being with infinite possibilities and limitless choices but a number, a puppet, with just this difference? numbers and puppets are not susceptible to fear. Elie Wiesel
When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is was given - my primary defense, my consolation, is the absurdity of that world Dean Koontz
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education. Henry James
Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never. Jane Austen
The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference is, this guy gets business cards. Augusten Burroughs
When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our friendship. Now I was the girl who'd stolen Andres; the girl who'd lied to her about who I was. Therefore, she owned me nothing. Alice Hoffman

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