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I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can reestablish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty. Calvin Coolidge
Edwidge Danticat quote: "They say behind mountains are more mountains."
They say behind mountains are more mountains. Edwidge Danticat
Suzanne Collins quote: "You should wear flames more often. They suit you."
You should wear flames more often. They suit you. Suzanne Collins
W. H. Auden quote: "There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye."
There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye. W. H. Auden
Nowhere is the English genius of domesticity more notably evident than in the festival of afternoon tea. The [...] chink of cups and the saucers tunes the mind to happy repose. George Gissing
It’s just human nature – isn’t it? – to be more attracted to something that’s taboo. If someone tells you not to smoke, you wanna smoke. If they say, ‘Don’t do drugs,’ you wanna do drugs. That’s why I’ve always thought that the best way to stop people taking drugs is to legalise the f**king things. It would take people about five seconds to realise that being an addict is a terribly unattractive and pathetic way to be, whereas at the moment it still has that kind of rebel cool vibe to it,... Ozzy Osbourne
I stressed out trying to figure out what I could say. I ate licorice. I stressed some more. I ate Dots. I stressed out even more-and wiped out a bag of Swedish Fish. And then I wrote. Maria Shriver
Kitty got up to fetch a table, and, as she passed, her eyes met Levin's. She felt for him with her whole heart, the more because she was pitying him for a suffering of which she was herself the cause. "If you can forgive me, forgive me," said her eyes, "I am so happy."I hate them all, and you, and myself," his eyes responded, and he took up his hat. But he was not destined to escape. Just as they were arranging themselves round the table, and Levin was on the point of retiring, the old Prince... Leo Tolstoy
If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened -- that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death. George Orwell
One of the most moving narratives of modern history is the story of how men and women languishing under various forms of oppression came to acquire, often at great personal cost, the sort of technical knowledge necessary for them to understand their own condition more deeply, and so acquire some of the theoretical armoury essential to change it. ... There is no reason why literary critics should not turn to autobiography or anecdotalism, or simply slice up their texts and deliver them to... Terry Eagleton
It was sometime in October; she had long ago lost track of all the days and it really didn’t matter because one was like another and there were no nights to separate them because she never slept any more. Sylvia Plath
Walt Whitman quote: "What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more..."
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life. Walt Whitman
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies"
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies Friedrich Nietzsche
Graham Greene quote: "I loved a man,"she said. "I told you - a man doesn't alter..."
I loved a man,"she said. "I told you - a man doesn't alter because you find out more about him. He's still the same man. Graham Greene
Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over. Charles Dickens

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