Category: writer
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
William Shakespeare
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
Samuel Johnson
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Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.
Aldous Huxley
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The most merciful thing in the world… is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man’s choice, and is highly prized.
Ambrose Bierce
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Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn’t imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.
Michelle Obama
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government – quaint though it might seem to even mention it at this point – is that ours is to be a government ‘of the people, by the people, for the people.’
Marianne Williamson