Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand. - James T. Farrell

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Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security.

James T. Farrell

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

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If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.

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America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

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Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.

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The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.

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Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large parties and has an extensive social life; yet he is lonely, and his guests scarcely know him. . . . Hemingway's characters live in a tourist world, and one of their major problems is that of consuming time itself. It is interesting to observe that his works are written from the stand point of the spectator. His characters are usually people who are looking--looking at bullfights, scenery, and at one another across cafe tables.

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Go afield with a good attitude, with respect for the wildlife you hunt and for the forest and fields in which you walk. Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make you a better person.

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William John Wills

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every [person] of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits [his or her] convictions, but we must all protest.

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William Safire

Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

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