Category: writer
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One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Aldous Huxley
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The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
Albert Camus
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Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.
Michelle Obama
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
Zadie Smith
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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J. K. Rowling
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
George Orwell
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There’s place and means for every man alive.
William Shakespeare
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Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare
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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What good is it to live a life that brings pains?
Aeschylus