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John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage.
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A. Bronson Alcott
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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Alfred A. Montapert
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
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Susan Ertz
He talked with more claret than clarity.
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Henry David Thoreau
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
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William Ralph Inge
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
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Dag Hammarskjld
Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice.
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Menander
Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
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Lu Yen
The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.
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Arthur Schnabel, in Chicago Daily News, June 11 1958
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides!
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Henry Miller
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
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Barbara Hall
One of the things that keeps you from dropping them in the nearest volcano is that you had to work too hard to get them. You had to cry, you had to scream, you had to sweat, you had to cuss out health care officials, and when that's all over with, you'll be willing to put up with a lot more from your kids.
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