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The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Face Earth True Unveiled Us
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul. Arnold Bennett
Truth Knowledge Soul Experience Added Ours Must Emotion Until Force Felt Without Brain May Aware Cognition
To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness. Arthur Herzog
Guard Over Emptiness Fake Stand
True creativity often starts where language ends. Arthur Koestler
Creativity Language Starts True Often Ends Where
I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it. Arundhati Roy
Time Needs Worth Political Made Statement Write Feel Calculating Make Without Am Accountant Political Statement Banker Fortunately
When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway. Arundhati Roy
History You People Ideology Say Out Wipe Like Know Taliban Does Sprung Fixed America Anyway Mean Created Things Number
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life. Barbara Kingsolver
Life Good You Eyes Somewhere Live Through Takes Empathy Look Another Person Fiction Ask Creates Novel
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity. Barbara Kingsolver
Humanity People Poet Own Writer Essay Fiction Fiction Writer
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. Barbara Kingsolver
Life Hope You Roof Live Distance Out Admire Inside Most Least Very Your Figure Right
The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American. Barry Eisler
Day You Every Day Victim Awareness Every Paranoid More Between Am Than Survivor American Situational Often Difference Being Low Average Average American Level Watchful
After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world. Bertha von Suttner
Love Beautiful World Most Beautiful Most Verb After To Love Help
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light. Boris Pasternak
Time Darkness Light Will Cruelty Crushed Believe Spirit Spite Step Powers Even Grave
We have an incredible warrior class in this country - people in law enforcement, intelligence - and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world. Brad Thor
God Class People Intelligence Thank God World Law Evil Country Warrior Every Incredible Tremendous Tremendous Amount Law Enforcement Protect Exists Thank Them Us Enforcement Standing Fast Amount Every Night Night
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. Charles Dickens
Nature You Human Nature Subdue Human Your Conquered Appetites
Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas. Charles Dickens
Christmas Time Man Mind Feeling Pleasant Indeed Must Some Something Recurrence Like Awakened Whose Associations
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Charlotte Bronte
Love Friendship Build Own Our Must Would Rather Sure Sake Friends Than Foundation
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. Charlotte Bronte
Death Monotony Almost Feel Same
I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive. Christopher Buckley
Hope Me People Because Deathbed Lot Forgive Forgive Me
My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't feel those people can be threatened or intruded upon now. But I am enormously protective of the people who are currently in my life, my existing friends and family. That is where the curtain is drawn. Chuck Palahniuk
Life Family History People I Am My Life Those Drawn Easy Threatened Feel Terms Dead Protective Am Private Existing Friends Very Friends And Family Discuss Currently Where Curtain Who Now
I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder. Chuck Palahniuk
Behavior Insanity Eye Of The Beholder Say Eye Status Would Status Quo Fact Any Beholder In Fact Quo Might Actually Interpreted Enlightenment
Rushing around can be a pointless diversion from actually living your life. Claire Messud
Life Living Rushing Diversion Pointless Around Your Actually
The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people. Dalton Trumbo
Trust People Enemies State Those Betray Imposed Chief Officials Any Public Them Public Officials Internal Who By The People
The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving. Dalton Trumbo
Love Worth Fighting Living Laughing Kind Having Only Goes Loving
The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast. Dan Wakefield
Hope People Free Sight Outcast Ministry Restore He Come Mission Heal Also Message Blind Partly Passage Prisoners His Befriend Up Mount Begins Quotes Certainly Sermon Jesus Bring Set
It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. Don DeLillo
Me People Eating Only Attain Most Form Professionalism Ever
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. Don DeLillo
Truth Waiting Every Finally Writer He Know Learns How End Gets Sentence
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