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Owning Quotes (page 186)

Martin took the same course, thinking as he went, that perhaps the free and independent citizens, who in their moral elevation, owned the colonel for their master, might render better homage to the goddess, Liberty, in nightly dreams upon the oven of a Russian Serf. Charles Dickens
A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men; it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation by one's own effort. Ayn Rand
Naomi Wolf quote: "It has been said that each generation must win its own..."
It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy Naomi Wolf
I meditated on the nature of friendship as I practiced the craft. My friends had always come from outside the mainstream. I had always been popular with the fifth column of my peers, those individuals who were princely in their solitude, lords of their own unpraised melancholy. Distrusting the approval of the chosen, I would take the applause of exiles anytime. My friends were all foreigners, and they wore their unbelongingness in their eyes. I hunted for that look; I saw it often, disarrayed... Pat Conroy
Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own. L. M. Montgomery
John Burroughs quote: "I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a..."
I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey. John Burroughs
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. Oscar Wilde
If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things. Daniel Dennett
And it's safe to assume that those in power would think longer and harder about launching a war if they envisioned their own sons and daughters in harm's way. Barack Obama
The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe nothing that cannot be proved, and respect nothing it cannot understand, and value nothing it cannot sell . . . The next hard time is just as real to him as the last, and so is the next blessing. The new ignorance is the same as the old, only less aware that ignorance is the same as the old, only less aware that ignorance is what it is. It is less humble, more... Wendell Berry
As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think. Paul Auster
Joseph Conrad quote: "Never test another man by your own weakness."
Never test another man by your own weakness. Joseph Conrad
He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds. Perhaps he was one of them, and here we were within six feet of death. Daphne du Maurier
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak."
Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak. Kurt Vonnegut
Unpraised, I find it hard to start writing in the morning; but the dejection lasts only 30 minutes, and once I start I forget all about it. One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, a silence there;[...] the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art. Virginia Woolf

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