"The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?”

“Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.”

“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

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"People fight not because they disagree,but because they don’t know they agree."

— Eugene J. Martin

Art1938–2005

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"There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge — that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in ev…"

— Hermann Hesse

Literature1861–1948

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"He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the contraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribes in himself the power rel…"

— Michel Foucault

Literature1926–1984

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"I prefer not to have any image, or any one image," she says, now curled on a couch in a suite at the hotel and sheathed in black, one shoulder bared. "It's because I come from the theater originally. …"

— Sigourney Weaver

Entertainment1949

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