Category: writer
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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Voltaire
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy
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People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
Eckhart Tolle
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As far as I’m concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
Zadie Smith
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As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!
Brene Brown
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The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
Carter G. Woodson
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.
Michelle Obama
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And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we’ve proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.
Rudyard Kipling
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare