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Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion. Jon Krakauer
God You Believe Once Directly Discussion Speaking
I have a great deal of joy in my life, and I'm very fortunate. That combination makes you aware of just how wonderful life can be on the one hand and how dreadful it can be for people on the other. You can't be happy in isolation. Jonathan Dimbleby
Life Great You Be Happy Happy People Joy Wonderful Great Deal My Life Isolation Other Dreadful Combination Deal Makes How Hand Very Wonderful Life Just Fortunate Aware
As it is, the grotesque distortions of the global market mean that for every dollar the West dispatches to Africa in the form of aid, two dollars are clawed back through subsidies and tariff barriers: a monumental rip-off by the rich as they instruct the poor to accept 'free' trade or else. Jonathan Dimbleby
Free Rich Every Aid Else Back Market Monumental Rip-Off Through Free Trade Global Global Market Accept Trade Dollar Dollars West Tariff Subsidies Africa Form Mean Poor Grotesque Barriers Two
I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have histories and thoughts and yearnings and hurts and misgivings and pleasures that don't belong to me. Jonathan Evison
Me Thoughts Business People Hurts Meddling Pleasures Destinies Characters Real Yearnings Yes Histories Real People Belong
Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white kids and three Asians. 'Diverse' has become a synonym for 'segregated.' Jonathan Kozol
Political Word Black Three Half Become White Our Synonym Kids Diverse Segregated Schools Call Hispanic Maybe Refuses Establishment Which Asians Means Use Two
An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true. Jonathan Kozol
Strange People College Our Neither Segregation True Idea Longer Come Equal Schools Lot America Awful Awful Lot Things Basically
No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get it. Jonathan Kozol
Book Human Being Own Knee Read Go Get Human Being Wants Should Who Ever
Why do I have an issue with banks? They have their greedy fingers in everyone's money. No other industry has the power to deduct a bill or fees directly from your own bank account without so much as a notice. Jonathan Raymond
Money Power Greedy Own Other Everyone Fingers Directly Fees Industry Without Issue Account Bank Bank Account Banks Much Notice Bill Your Why
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. Jonathan Swift
Great You Rest Example Nothing Manners Please Bad One Or Two Bad Manners Only None Offend Flatter Flattery Company Two
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder. Jonathan Swift
Man Together Woman Weather Rules Asunder Marry Window Put Thunder Anniversary Him None Stormy Who
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride. Jonathan Swift
Pride Humility Mark Vanity Rather Than
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting. Jonathan Swift
Men Animals Fighting Other Imitation Diversion Most Sort Children
Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government grant these rights freely and spontaneously, without damaging reservations, without irritating mistrust. Jose Rizal
Government Rights Fact Since Freely Spontaneously Without Mistrust May Six In Fact Irritating Grant Reservations Million Necessary Damaging
Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession. Jose Rizal
Great Lie Great American Possession Dream Someday Perhaps Foreign Hand American May Africa Pacific Republic Interests American Republic Who Whose
No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right? Jose Rizal
Fitness Man Rights Citizen Pay Fatherland Must Be A Man Some More More Or Less Civilization No-One He Arises Merely Since Shed Him His Denied Question Fit Blood Ceases Being Regarded Taxes Asked Less Filipino Why Right Defend
Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity. Jose Saramago
Life World Rest Ominous Terrible Discovered American Intensity Experienced Experiencing Either Now Fragility
The problem is that the right doesn't need any ideas to govern, but the left can't govern without ideas. Jose Saramago
Problem Ideas Without Govern Left Any Right Need
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974. Jose Saramago
Natural Political Dictatorship Beginning Revolution Active Thinking Way Critical Atmosphere Adolescence Direction Marxism Ideological Up Being Influenced Formation Oriented Resistance
To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life. Jose Saramago
Life Death Generation Humanity Nothing Living Dramatic About Except Continue Loses Die Going After Story
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies. Joseph Addison
Justice Brow Armies Force Demolished Built Nor Overthrown Mountain Cannot Which Fortress Violence
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. Joseph Addison
Soul Before Imagination Everything Pleasure Possessed Gives Uncommon Idea New Because Surprise Curiosity Which Agreeable Fills Raises
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship. Joseph Addison
Love Long Those Marriages Constancy Abound Generally Most Courtship
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. Joseph Addison
Nature Human Nature Ourselves Weakness Temper Greatest Human Inconsistency
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. Joseph Addison
Happiness Enemy Will Virtue Corrupt He Becomes Quickly Than Suspicion Suspicious Naturally Less
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. Joseph Addison
Nature Man Our Ability Divine Divine Nature Perfectly Attribute Glory Just Utmost
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. Joseph Addison
Legal Oppression Lasting Authority Inflicted Heavy Which Perversion
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