Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
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I don't think I've ever been haunted by a ghost, but I always joke with my fiance about the house we're living in right now. It seems to have something in it.
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I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.
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An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.
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One of the things I wanted to do with my own books was bridge the gap between 'Goosebumps' and adult horror.
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As a young kid, I spent a lot of time exploring the world around me. I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of wheat, the patches of trees, along the railroad tracks, and on red dirt roads.
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If you just focus on making singles, you lose the personality of the record. Because everything is not meant to go to radio.
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Each hour until we meet is as a birdThat wings from far his gradual way alongThe rustling covert of my soul.
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Don't let anybody infiltrate your dream
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A lot of times people say, 'As soon as you relax you'll have a kid.'
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When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness engendered by traveling leads one to reflect upon the meaning of life, for life is after all a travelling from one unknown to another unknown.
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The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
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Manye chapeleyns arn chaste, ac charite is aweye; Are none hardere than hii whan hii ben avaunced: Unkynde to hire kyn and to alle Cristene, Chewen hire charite and chiden after moore - Swich chastite withouten charite worth cheyned in helle.
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The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from art what it does not hear from theology, philosophy, social theory, and what it cannot hear from pure science. Out of the struggle at the center has come an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
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You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive.
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Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid.
