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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition. Vernon Howard

Man Finally Miracle Only Sees True Himself His Opposition

Problems are cured by facing their cause. Vernon Howard

Cause Problems Facing Cured

Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted. Victor Hugo

Freedom Family Liberty Every Nutrition Press Diminution See Followed Civilization Human Wherever Human Family Interfered Interrupted

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. Victor Hugo

Light Fire Every Out Learn Read Spark Syllable

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. Victor Hugo

Me You Humanity Ugly Made Hell Tell Must Deity Outrage He Been His Very Reply Hell Is Your Image

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. Victor Hugo

Love Fathers Adore Does His Children Grandfather Grandson Who

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. Victor Hugo

Great Book Architecture Thought Every Great Ideas Religious Recorded Only Vast Ideas Human Race Page Human Race Human Thought Symbol

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. Virginia Woolf

Best Poetry Delicious Prose True Most Which Full

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it. Virginia Woolf

God Book Job Think Out Well Read Last Night Last Night

A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself. Will Self

Think Sliver Condition Itself Human Short Short Story Human Condition Story Capacity

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. Willa Cather

Death Cold Having Shall Die Lived

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. Willa Cather

Great Animal World Edge Exhausted Energy Down Took Flung Spent Sun Visiting Stepped Over Like Due Stimulated Cloak Left Behind Fields Evening Wide Presence

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. Willa Cather

Best Character Creative Everything Define Range Lies About Only Write Writer Talent Well Equally Within Limitations His Reporter Artist Note View Deepest Presented Sympathies

Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States. William Blum

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. William Feather

Happiness People Enjoy Plenty Never Share Miss Because Stop Found

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it. Zig Ziglar

If you want to earn more, learn more. Zig Ziglar

You Earn More Learn Want

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations. Zig Ziglar

Life Attitude You Those Attitudes Fit Situations Cannot

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