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They have something of which they are proud. What do they call it, that which makes them proud? Culture, they call it; it distinguishes them from the goatherds. Friedrich Nietzsche
A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it. Napoleon Bonaparte
She waved through the dirty window from her seat as the train started up. I did not do the ape act. I stood there and did the human act as well as possible. Ursula K. Le Guin
Will Smith quote: "Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much..."
Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings & emotions/ Will Smith
Love. But the pure kind of love. I don't think that comes very often. Most of us are ordinary. If we do anything great, it's only so we'll be loved ourselves. Maybey just for ten minutes. Barbara Kingsolver
She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision. Edith Wharton
And, most important of all," added the Mathemagician, "here is your own magic staff. Use it well and there is nothing it cannot do for you."He placed in Milo's breast pocket a small gleaming pencil which, except for the size, was much like his own. Norton Juster
Albert Camus quote: "At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do..."
At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary. Albert Camus
It is a strange fact, but incontestable, that the philanthropist, who ardent in his desire to do good, who patient, reasonable and gentle, yet disdains to use other argument than truth, has less influence over men's minds than he who, grasping and selfish, refuses not to adopt any means, nor awaken any passion, nor diffuse any falsehood, for the advancement of his cause. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Virgil Thomson quote: "The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do..."
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish. Virgil Thomson
I think I'll be a clown when I get grown," said Dill. "Yes, sir, a clown... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off. Harper Lee
What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him. Oswald Chambers
Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start screaming. James Patterson
Whatever you call them, they look like someone smashed a fly over the comma,” Ketchum said to Danny, about all the semicolons. “The only writing I do are letters to you and your dad, but I’ve written rather a lot of them, and in all those letters, I don’t believe I’ve ever used as many of those damn things as you use on any one fucking page of this novel.” “They’re called semicolons, Ketchum,” the writer said. John Irving
Knowing those things are going to kill you," she said, "and still you do it."How differently I might behave," Tom said, "if immortality were an option. Stephen Fry

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