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We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes. H. Rider Haggard
Ulysses S. Grant quote: "The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best..."
The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front. Ulysses S. Grant
All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is a minor miracle that they take place at all. Terry Eagleton
That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met. Noam Chomsky
Marianne Moore quote: "Poetry...... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp,..."
Poetry...... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyesthat can dilate, hair that can rise Marianne Moore
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. Nora Roberts
Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is nowmingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater. J. R. R. Tolkien
It's a mystery to me. We have a greed with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all you won't be free. When you want more than you have. You think you need. And when you think more than you want. Your thoughts begin to bleed. I think I need to find a bigger place'Cause when you have more than you think. You need more space. Society, you're a crazy breed. I hope you're not lonely without me. Society, crazy and deep. I hope you're not lonely... Eddie Vedder
This book bore the label R>3214 VIII/2. And this painful truth was suddenly borne in upon the mind of Monsieur Sariette: to wit, that the most scientific system of numbering will not help to find a book if the book is no longer in its place. Anatole France
I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an expla nation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful place than a universe tricked out with capricious, ad hoc magic. Richard Dawkins
Noam Chomsky quote: "Unfortunately, you can’t vote the rascals out, because you..."
Unfortunately, you can’t vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place Noam Chomsky
Big-shot town, small-shot town, jet-propelled old-fashioned town, by old-world hands with new-world tools built into a place whose heartbeat carries farther than its shout, whose whispering in the night sounds less hollow than its roistering noontime laugh: they have builded a heavy-shouldered laughter here who went to work too young. Nelson Algren
Do you think they're still there?' 'Where?' 'Greece. Egypt. The islands. Those places. Do you think if you walked where those people walked you'd see the gods?' 'Maybe. But I don't think people'd know that was what they'd seen. Neil Gaiman
It would hardly be kindness if he didn't punish sin, not to use every means to put the evil thing far from us. Whatever may be meant by the place of misery Mr. Sutherland, it's only another form of his love. Love shining through the fogs of evil, and thus made to look very different. George MacDonald

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