Famous quotes by Authors

"Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real"

Thomas Merton, Author

"Fascism is capitalism plus murder"

Upton Sinclair, Author

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"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

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"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman"

Virginia Woolf, Author

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"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them"

James A. Baldwin, Author

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"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any"

Alice Walker, Author

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"'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'"

Lewis Carroll, Author

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"Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary"

Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author

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"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"

Mark Twain, Author

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"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

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"America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race"

H.G. Wells, Author

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"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts"

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author

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"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read"

Mark Twain, Author

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"No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it"

Raymond Holliwell, Author

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"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world"

Joel A. Barker, Author

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"It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak"

Neil Gaiman, Author

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog"

Mark Twain, Author

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"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right"

Victor Hugo, Author

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"A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there"

H. Stanley Judd, Author

"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor"

James A. Baldwin, Author

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"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions"

Susan Sontag, Author

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"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world"

John Le Carre, Author

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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt"

Mark Twain, Author

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"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

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"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact"

George Eliot, Author

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"There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper"

Camille Paglia, Author

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"All generalizations are false, including this one"

Mark Twain, Author

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