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Andrew Schneider
Weird, isn't it Somehow in the dead of winter when its 40 below, so cold your words just freeze in the air, you think you'll never hear a robin's song again or see a blossom on a cherry tree, when one day you wake up and bingo, light coming through the mini blinds is softened with a tick of rose and the cold morning air has lost its bite. It's spring once again, the streets are paved with mud and the hills are alive with the sound of mosquitos.
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John Stuart Mill
Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.
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Victor Frankl
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.
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Thomas Carlyle
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
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Frank Herbert, Dune
Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.
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Aldous Huxley
The only completely consistent people are the dead.
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Robert Cecil Day Lewis
No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
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William Shakespeare
A plague o' both your houses
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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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M Scott Peck
Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
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Charles Dickens
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
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Gilbert Highet
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those
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