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At times He showers His gifts when we least expect them. Treat each day... LATIKA TEOTIA The liberal state has no view on whether witchcraft is more valuable than all-in wrestling. Like a t... TERRY EAGLETON Who cares what are you eating?? Who cares where are you? Who cares what are you posting??<... DEYTH BANGER May I tell you a wonderful truth about your dog? ... In our religion, we believe in reincarnation. W... DEAN KOONTZ The characteristics of this kind of reading are perhaps summed up in the word “orthodox,” which ... MORTIMER J. ADLER I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great de... JANE AUSTEN I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my p... J.K. ROWLING If you think God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you liv... KEVIN DEYOUNG We've all grown unaccustomed to life, we're all lame, each of us more or less. We've even grown so u... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY the one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight. . . It should be the growing nati... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist... IAN HACKING What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good ... LARRY FLYNT Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, ... ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my... GIACOMO CASANOVA When you have a performer as talented as Bill Murray or as Harold, that can write as well as they ca... IVAN REITMAN I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you hal... 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JAMES WOLPERT With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the... BARRY RITHOLTZ I think there's more support today. I think there's better understanding today. And there's a better... ANITA HILL Feast of the Conversion of Paul If I say to you that no one has time to finish, that the longest h... C. S. LEWIS If a God, he could not suffer death, for immortality cannot die, and as a man his death could be no ... THOMAS PAINE It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is. WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM
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