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People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice. Danielle Steel
People Relationships Entire Only Voice Partial Come Message Am Context Text Texting Via Human Warmth Now Human Voice Nuance Tone Need
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E. M. Forster
Long Nothing Run Shape Long Run Feeding Spoon Us Teaches
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. E. M. Forster
Mom Meet Would Would-Be More Various Could Sure Mothers Am Nations Wars
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. Elie Wiesel
You Soul Win Sometimes Lose Spirit Victories Even
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free. Franz Kafka
Free Safer Than Often Chains
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie. Franz Kafka
Truth Truth Is Lie Recognize Lies Only Indivisible Itself Anyone Wants Cannot Who Hence Things Two
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Work Women Men Men And Women Lose Mad Raving Go Existence Deprived Meaningful Reason Stark
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love Death Men Worship Those Tortured Martyrs Prophets Accept Them Whom Slay
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Life You Remember Matters How Happens
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. George Sand
Work Strength Man Reward Pleasure Punishment His
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. Gore Vidal
Politics Time Man Presidential Ten Ten Times He Bought Over Material Been Times Gets By The Time
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days. Gore Vidal
Age Will President Rule Television Perfect Exception Days
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert
Happiness Health Good Good Health Selfish Stupidity Three Stupid Lost Though Lacking Requirements
Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. Gustave Flaubert
Nothing Humiliating Enterprises See More Failed Idiots Than Succeed
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. H. P. Lovecraft
World Mind Correlate Merciful Most Contents Human Inability Human Mind Thing
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. H. P. Lovecraft
Nature Wonderful Old Men Ocean Secret Books More Lore Than Old Men
I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect. H. P. Lovecraft
Respect Human Being Superior Every Ways Fact Vastly Conceive Readily Proud Am Very Human Being In Fact Dislike Many Beings Species
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness. Henryk Sienkiewicz
Loneliness Man Soul Water Sky Those Between Another Whole Two
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. Herman Melville
Democracy Dignity Hell Purple Devils Equals Where Whether Hell Is Rags Wickedness
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. Herman Melville
Work Wisdom Art Great Old Master Living Difficult Great Art Chapters Know Most How Grow
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness. Hermann Hesse
Happiness Smile Woman Sacrifice Able Throw Self Sake Years Moment Away
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is. Isaac Bashevis Singer
Man Justice Will Gun Long Those Destroy Weaker He Knife Than Stand Who
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. Jack London
You Charity Dog Bone Hungry Shared Just
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. James A. Michener
Food Home Religion You People Fear Better Stay Stay-At-Home Might Customs Ignore Avoid Reject
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality. James Joyce
Will Busy Way Immortality Only Arguing Put Puzzles Over Centuries Meant Many Keep Professors
Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you. John Irving
Life You Pick Get Them Your Choose Things Nightmares
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