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...which she had spent long and happy hours releasing from their shells, with crazy dedication, because the shelling of pine-kernels is a form of lunacy, you spend more energy getting the damn things out than they give you when you eat. Salman Rushdie
If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds. David McCullough
It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong. Leo Tolstoy
W. E. B. Du Bois quote: "Children learn more from what you are than what you teach."
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. W. E. B. Du Bois
Ani DiFranco quote: "I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to..."
I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do than survive. Ani DiFranco
All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs. Madeleine L'Engle
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society. George Washington
William Strunk, Jr. quote: "It's worse to irresolute than wrong."
It's worse to irresolute than wrong. William Strunk, Jr.
Arthur Ransome quote: "Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers won't drown."
Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers won't drown. Arthur Ransome
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than..."
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't. W. Somerset Maugham
...And the reason I am the way I am is that I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is this: You fall down. You get up. That's it. It doesn't get any simpler than that. Jose Canseco
C. S. Lewis quote: "To what will you look for help if you will not look to that..."
To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself? C. S. Lewis
Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this faade—this smooth and tolerant manner of me? Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man? Have you no... Walt Whitman
The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. Francis Bacon
Victor Hugo quote: "There is always more misery among the lower classes than there..."
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. Victor Hugo

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