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Edmund Burke quote: "It is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover..."
It is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles and design. Edmund Burke
It doesn't matter how many drugs I take, I'm not fulfilled. This isn't satisfying. There's a spiritual hunger going on. Everybody feels it. If you don't feel it now, you will. Trust me. You will... Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's the real rebellion. Alice Cooper
Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model. Christopher Hitchens
That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song,' he said. Really, sarge? But it's about angels.' Yes, thought Vimes, and it's amazing what bits those angels cause to rise up as the song progresses. It's a real soldiers' song: sentimental, with dirty bits. As I recall, they used to sing it after battles? he said. 'I've seen old men cry when they sing it? he added. Why? It sounds cheerful.' They were remembering... Terry Prachett
A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off Archibald MacLeish
Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life... Fred Rogers
Amy Sedaris quote: "Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back..."
Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend. Amy Sedaris
Nicholas Sparks quote: "You know the real me," she said, stopping to peer up at him...."
You know the real me," she said, stopping to peer up at him. "More than anyone else. Nicholas Sparks
it was more like two scared kids huddling in the dark when they knew the monster under the bed wasn't just real, but was holding a grudge. Laurell K. Hamilton
Paulo Coelho quote: "I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to..."
I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it. Paulo Coelho
John Steinbeck quote: "Anybody can break down. It takes a [real] man not to."
Anybody can break down. It takes a [real] man not to. John Steinbeck
I'd see him do things that didn't fit with his face or hands, things like painting a picture at OT with real paints on a blank paper with no lines or numbers anywhere on it to tell him where to paint, or like writing letters to somebody in a beautiful flowing hand. How could a man who looked like him paint pictures or write letters to people, or be upset and worried like I saw him once when he got a letter back? Ken Kesey
Dream or nightmare, we have to live our experience as it is, and we have to live it awake. We live in a world which is penetrated through and through by science and which is both whole and real. We cannot turn it into a game simple by taking sides. Jacob Bronowski
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "The real man wants two different things: danger and play...."
The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. Friedrich Nietzsche
It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as my real birthday: the birth of me as a person, making decisions about my life on my own. I was not running away from Islam, or to democracy. I didn't have any big ideas then. I was just a young girl and wanted some way to be me; so I bolted into the unknown. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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