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| ac380dc | Each party has a platform--a pre-fixed menu of beliefs making up its worldview. The candidate can choose one of the two platforms, but remember: no substitutions. For example, do you support healthcare? Then you must also want a ban on assault weapons. Pro limited government? Congratulations, you are also anti-abortion. Luckily, all human opinion falls neatly into one of the two clearly defined camps. Thus, the two-party system elegantly re.. | Jon Stewart | ||
| 5945c00 | By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question. | Robert Harris | ||
| e3fa294 | Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit. The earth is becoming warmer-it must be our fault! The mountain is destroying us-we have not propitiated the gods! It rains too much, it rains too little-a comfort to think that these things are somehow connected to our behavior, that if only we lived a little better, a little more frugally, our virt.. | Robert Harris | ||
| 58544b2 | They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 575e3b5 | Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 4061bbc | The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite. | John Steinbeck | ||
| d6be48e | An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie | John Steinbeck | ||
| ac7cd9c | As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. | John Steinbeck | ||
| d418ee2 | Thou mayest rule over sin,' Lee. That's it. I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles--only the winners are remembered. Surely most men are destroyed, but there are others who like pillars of fire guide frightened men through the darkness. 'Thou mayest, Thou mayest!' What glory! It is true that we are weak and sick .. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 3e8a8d9 | During the dry years, the people forgot about the rich years, and when the wet years returned, they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 2747df0 | On the black earth on which the ice plants bloomed, hundreds of black stink bugs crawled. And many of them stuck their tails up in the air. "Look at all them stink bugs," Hazel remarked, grateful to the bugs for being there. "They're interesting," said Doc. "Well, what they got their asses up in the air for?" Doc rolled up his wool socks and put them in the rubber boots and from his pocket he brought out dry socks and a pair of thin mocc.. | humanity praying religion | John Steinbeck | |
| 0f71c68 | WHEREVER WE HAD BEEN in Russia, in Moscow, in the Ukraine, in Stalingrad, the magical name of Georgia came up constantly. People who had never been there, and who possibly never could go there, spoke of Georgia with a kind of longing and a great admiration. They spoke of Georgians as supermen, as great drinkers, great dancers, great musicians, great workers and lovers. And they spoke of the country in the Caucasus and around the Black Sea a.. | tbilisi | John Steinbeck | |
| faa028b | Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 53f00a6 | The last clear definite function of man--muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need--this is man....For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. This you may say of man--when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economi.. | idea john-steinback man the-grapes-of-wrath | John Steinbeck | |
| 636a2c8 | Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer." | John Steinbeck | ||
| ad5b095 | I always found in myself a dread of west and a love of east. | John Steinbeck | ||
| ce3b29a | Nobody has the right to remove any single experience from another. Life and death are promised. We have a right to pain. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 5e6187c | There is a strange duality in the human which makes for an ethical paradox. We have definitions of good qualities and of bad; not changing things, but generally considered good and bad throughout the ages and throughout the species. Of the good, we think always of wisdom, tolerance, kindliness, generosity, humility; and the qualities of cruelty, greed, self-interest, graspingness, and rapacity are universally considered undesirable. And yet.. | paradox | John Steinbeck | |
| c75bbbe | It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings. | nature peace simplicity | John Steinbeck | |
| 37fc9cc | I take a pleasure in inquiring into things. I've never been content to pass a stone without looking under it. And it is a black disappointment to me that I can never see the far side of the moon. | east-of-eden john-steinbeck | John Steinbeck | |
| d74a855 | They say that love is blind, but it's trauma that's blind. Love sees what is. | Neil Strauss | ||
| 40a55ee | As a young girl I believed my life would never have been a struggle if Mr.Tanaka hadn't torn me away from my tipsy house. But now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 3535387 | The moment I formulated this thought, everything aroud me seemed to droop heavily toward the earth. Outside in the garden, the eaves of the roof dripped rain like beads of weighted glass. Even the mats themselves seemed to press down upon the floor. I remember thinking that I was dacing to express not the pain of a young woman who has lost her supernatural lover, but the pain I myself would feel when my life was finally robbed of the one th.. | Arthur Golden | ||
| 182bb1d | What kind of fool had he been, to throw away romance untried? | romance | Piers Anthony | |
| 6d2e080 | Be what you are; it is better that way. --Dolph | Piers Anthony | ||
| 196d4b9 | What's an adventure if you know all the steps before you take them? | Nora Roberts | ||
| 46f2279 | You changed what was between us. You took the step, and I didn't see it coming. I can't be sorry for that when I'm so damn grateful for it. I don't know if you were always the one," he said again. "But I know you're the one now, and I know you're going to be the one tomorrow, and next month, next year. And you're going to be the one for the rest of my life." | Nora Roberts | ||
| aef4d05 | Matt's brother and the blond cook spent a good portion of last season tangling the sheets. Historically, said cook tangled many other sheets with dexterity and aplomb." "Aplomb" "It's a polite way to say she banged often, well and without too much discrimination." "That also sounded polite." "I was raised well." | Nora Roberts | ||
| 4286bf8 | You are wise as well as short." "I can also break bricks with my bare hands." "That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath." | Nora Roberts | ||
| a7ad4e2 | Love didn't run on logic. It didn't follow neat lines or a list of priorities. | Nora Roberts | ||
| bb71fe6 | After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and praising your promise and future, after the years of schooling, fitting yourself into different size desks, memorizing, reciting, reporting, and performing for jury after jury of teachers, counselors, and administrators, you still feel inadequate, alone, vulnerable, and naked in a world that can be unforg.. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| 5726806 | We don't anticipate accidents, nor do we expect to die young. | V.C. Andrews | ||
| a833815 | Dreams, I thought. They're the riches of a poor person, stashed in treasure chests buried deeply in the imagination. But are dreams enough? | V.C. Andrews | ||
| c8713f6 | Perhaps lovers aren't supposed to look down at the ground. That kind of story is told in symbols--and earth represents reality, and reality represents frustrations, chance illnesses, death, murder, and all kinds of other tragedies. Lovers are meant to look up at the sky, for up there no beautiful illusions can be trampled upon. | inspirational-love | V.C. Andrews | |
| 445445b | Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver, out of the earth that he ploughed and turned and spent himself upon. He took his life from the earth; drop by drop by his sweat he wrung food from it and from the food, silver. Each time before this that he had taken the silver out to give to anyone, it had been like taking a piece of his life and giving it to someone care.. | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 9723d4b | French is the most beautiful," he said, "and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other." | Pearl S. Buck | ||
| 579112f | Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God. | god surrender trust | Rick Warren | |
| 6e88bd0 | Love should be your top priority, primary objective, and greatest ambition. Love is not a good part of your life; it's the most important part. The Bible says, "Let love be your greatest aim." | Rick Warren | ||
| 0bcac6f | In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda. | forgiveness genocide rwanda | Rick Warren | |
| 75e9d5c | Wonderland is here now. Don't know what we might see. Yesterday's gone forever. But my future's up to me. What a future it will be.... | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 46a0e61 | Absence makes the heart grow desperate. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 15899af | anticipation is the best alarm there is | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 9433f18 | Poverty is a great equalizer | John Grisham | ||
| 2da9ce1 | It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood | Julia Quinn |