Emily Dickinson Quotes
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
Ingrid Newkirk
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
Sam Harris
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
Paracelsus
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
Yael Stone
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
Fiona Apple
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
Viggo Mortensen
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
N. T. Wright
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
Bahman Ghobadi
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The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.
Said Nursi
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
Vernon Howard
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
Bat for Lashes
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
Jack Nicholson
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
Barbara Hale
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I don't think my daughter wants to see me on the toilet. Lila has seen me nude.
Kate Moss
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
Samuel Johnson
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
Nana Mouskouri
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
Wavy Gravy
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I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.
James Larkin
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
Salman Rushdie
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He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly.
Anne Bronte
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Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.
Soren Kierkegaard
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
Jackie Speier
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Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.
Emily Dickinson