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Charles Peguy
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.
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Katherine Paterson
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
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Ronald Reagan
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it.
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James Thurber
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
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Elizabeth Bowen
The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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Helen Lawrenson
Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance.
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Laurie Anderson
Books are the way the dead talk to the living.
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
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Jenny Jerome Churchill
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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La Rochefoucauld
Our minds are lazier than our bodies.
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John A. Rassias
Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom.
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