"All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty."

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“There is one law for rich and poor alike, which prevents them equally from stealing bread and sleeping under bridges.”

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“It was only now that they realized that there is nothing that can really be a preparation for death.”

“Avan was as religious as the next young dragon with his way to make in the world—which is to say that he held many traditional beliefs which he had never paused to examine, attended church because it would have seemed strange not to, rarely paid much attention when he was there, and found piety out of the pulpit thoroughly misplaced.”

“What you can't pay back you pay forward.”

“Marrying her to prove I do not subscribe to an outdated convention of class would be just as foolish as refusing to marry her because I did.”

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"...why the American people would even give the slightest consideration for government health programs. They don't want the government to deliver their automobiles, or their videocassette recorders, or…"

— Ron Paul

Medicine1935

#Human Nature

"As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their …"

— Ernest Hemingway

Literature1899–1961

#happiness

"Johnson recalled that: "Wilt had such unbelievable endurance and speed that, if he took off running, there wasn't any chance that anybody would keep up with him. He glided around the track and had the…"

— Wilt Chamberlain

Sports1936–1999

#beauty

"…White people playing people of color is not new; what is new is people of color are now own their own authenticity. White theater was created to reflect their audiences and white theater must deal wi…"

— Robert O'Hara

Entertainment1970

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