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never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant. I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday. They seldom come nearer to it than planting-time, harvesttime, cherry-time, spring-time, or fall-time. A Frederick Douglass
Charles Dickens quote: "It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at..."
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself. Charles Dickens
We live in time - it holds us and molds us - but I never felt I understood it very well. And I'm not referring to theories about how it bends and doubles back, or may exist elsewhere in parallel versions. No, I mean ordinary, everyday time, which clocks and watches assure us passes regularly: tick-tock, click-clock. Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it... Julian Barnes
We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate. Reinhold Niebuhr
It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I know that everything I say will be directly taken out on Peeta. Result in his torture. But not his death, no nothing so merciful as that. Snow will ensure that his life is much worse than death. Suzanne Collins
Roald Dahl quote: "When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful...."
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty. Roald Dahl
Suzanne Collins quote: "For me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife..."
For me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand. -Peeta Suzanne Collins
It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. Edith Wharton
PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams. PICARD: The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship. WESLEY: But Starfleet Academy PICARD: It takes more. Open your mind to the past. Art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something. Gene Roddenberry
Shel Silverstein quote: " and she loved a boy very, very much-- even more than she..."
... and she loved a boy very, very much-- even more than she loved herself. Shel Silverstein
Dr. Seuss quote: "Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to..."
Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry. Dr. Seuss
The public is a host, more numerous than all the peoples together, but it is a body which can never be reviewed, it cannot even be represented, because it is an abstraction. Nevertheless, when the age is reflective and passionless and destroys everything concrete, the public becomes everything and is supposed to include everything. And that again shows how the individual is thrown back upon himself. Soren Kierkegaard
Tom Robbins quote: "Perhaps sound carries farther across time than across space."
Perhaps sound carries farther across time than across space. Tom Robbins
If the stars twinkled more than usual on any given night, it meant that the angels in heaven were happy and were flitting across the doors of heaven; and since stars were merely holes ventilating heaven, the twinkling came from the angels flitting past the holes that admitted air into the holy home of God. Richard Wright
Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others. Fyodor Dostoevsky

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