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We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer. Michael Connelly
american-author certainly changed exterior growing safe
The exterior circumstances have certainly changed for many children. The world is not the safe place it was when I was growing up. Beverly Cleary
american-author failure
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality. Toni Cade Bambara
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I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.
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But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not to overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world. Sandra Cisneros
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This was a team that truly learned the meaning of (what it is like to) be a team, and they can take that with them the rest of their lives. Tim Collins
american-author deserves human race
The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it. Elizabeth Janeway
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Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
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It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different. Evan Hunter
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The external environment continues to be very difficult, ... We have continued to reduce our capacity to match demand from our customers, improved our operations and began to realign staff resources to better our financial results.
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When I entered the Manhattan School of Music, I felt great pressure living and studying away from home. Then I began to compose pieces, like writing diaries. Each piece is inspired by my own experience or the true stories of friends around.
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When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the first by the Welsh medieval laws, by the discovery that women enjoyed a greater status in Wales than elsewhere in Europe. Sharon Kay Penman
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I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one thing about themselves, but the truth is as far from that as it can be. So I began to think about how to put that kind of character in a book for kids. Stephan Pastis
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The longer I spent time on 'The Daily Show,' standing in front of a green screen pretending to report from war zones and hot spots around the world - most often from somewhere in the Middle East - the more I began to realize that 'The Daily Show' was radicalizing me. Aasif Mandvi
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Physicists explain creation by telling us that the universe began with the Big Bang, an intense energy singularity that continued expanding. But who created the singularity? Ashwin Sanghi
began breath enormous glad great until
The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did... until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on. Ted Chiang
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I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously. Tom Curren
began few great hold playing start
We know we couldn't hold the great start we began with. But we must start playing how we did in those first few games.
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I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies. Carole Bouquet
book reading moving
Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve. Carol Shields
book writing want
Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.
book shoes marketing
What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this [marketing material] deliver that information? Carol White
book heart telephones
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved. Carlos Drummond de Andrade
book writing
I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down. Carlos Fuentes
book reality thinking
For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.
book wife reason
Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
book past years
Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.
explained hope next shared state
We've shared with them where we stand, what we hope to do next and explained to them the state of play, Kofi Annan
explained players rules
We've all had explained as to what is going to be called. Players were on the rules committee, so we all have to adjust. Tom Fitzgerald
explained extent imply massive number physics possible predict saying string universes
To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible different universes with different laws of physics in each universe, and there may be no way of distinguishing between them or saying why the laws of physics are the way they are. And if I can predict anything, then I haven't explained anything. Lawrence M. Krauss
explained progress stance sticking
There is no progress. We are sticking to our stance and they explained their stance.
explained laughed loud
She laughed out loud and explained that was a sunflower.
explained love
Love that can be explained is not love. Zhang Yimou
explained feet knock square
We explained to all of them they were going to have to get their feet set, square their shoulders, be fundamental and knock three's down.
explained loved playing
I explained to him how I really loved his instruments and had been playing them for a long, long time, J. Taylor
explained leaving matter
I explained I was leaving the matter in Mr. Ashcroft's hands. Janet Reno
principles degrees cost
The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price. David Korten
principles economics economy
Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.
principles belief conviction
The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held. Jane Addams
principles ease ruling
His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle. Jane Austen
principles republican loses
[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose. Alan Greenspan
principles world down-and
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles. Chris Cleave
principles compromise
I don't compromise my principles for politics. Chris Christie
principles sculpture passionate
The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm. Barbara Hepworth
principles development guides
... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love. Ashley Montagu