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Ralph Ellison

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SOHEIR KHASHOGGI Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
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STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
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PAULO COELHO Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Any death is stupid from the viewpoint of whoever is undergoing it, Adam One used to say, because no...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
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PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
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CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
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ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
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ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
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ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
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ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
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MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina...
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WALLIS SIMPSON

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RALPH ELLISON And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which th...
RALPH ELLISON Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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RALPH ELLISON Whence all this passion towards conformity anyway? Diversity is the word. Let man keep his many part...
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RALPH ELLISON Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
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LARRY ELLISON I have no mouth, and I must scream.
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LARRY ELLISON I don't like Tom.
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LARRY ELLISON a bag of viruses.
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LARRY ELLISON Despite what everyone says, our software is actually cheaper.
LARRY ELLISON Every application we make works with the Mac today,
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LARRY ELLISON Throughout my work as a state legislator and member of Congress since 2002, I have worked as hard as...
KEITH ELLISON Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
HARLAN ELLISON There must be something in the water in Minnesota because historically, despite its seemingly homoge...
KEITH ELLISON We need more leaders speaking up for minority groups who have been marginalized and attacked.
KEITH ELLISON I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going t...
LARRY ELLISON We are as a nation very strongly committed to fighting war crimes and bringing those who are guilty ...
CHRIS ELLISON These dogs, with their super-sensitive noses, remain the quickest and most accurate detection device...
CHRIS ELLISON Certainly you can't do anything before charges have been laid, but I can assure you that if they fac...
CHRIS ELLISON Attacking terrorist financing cuts off the lifeblood of terrorism,
CHRIS ELLISON The Australian Government has great respect for the significance of these items as part of China's s...
CHRIS ELLISON There are still some people who want longhorn cattle out there, but we've been working with a core g...
CHUCK ELLISON Our democracy is not something to be taken for granted. You have to fight for it. You have to commit...
KEITH ELLISON If you do panto, everyone says you are washed up - but I love all the booing and hissing.
JENNIFER ELLISON Girls Aloud,
JENNIFER ELLISON I recently went mad and spent - 1,000 in one afternoon on bras and knickers. I love classy, lacy stu...
JENNIFER ELLISON If it's supposed to be a really passionate snog, you slip the tongue in.
JENNIFER ELLISON