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9<br>11 changed everything. We lose more Americans every year drowning in the bathtub than through terrorism. But terrorism has been used as a lever to frighten people, pass legislation, sound tough and coerce us into giving away our rights in pursuit of phantom problems.

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George Sand

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

Authorship, Indestructible, Obsession, Violent, Writing

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nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then. . . We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.

Nature, Poetry, Stars, Sweet, Twinkle, Unsullied

If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.

Ignorant, Law, Love, Men, Subject

When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you. . .

Air, Dissolved, Draw, Kissing, Lips, Tried

faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.

Expect, Faith, Like, Like Love, Want

These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!

Good, Heart, My Heart, Perhaps, Tears, Watered

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Don't forget to swing hard, in case you hit the ball.

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Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg.

Absorbed, Day, Enemy, Men, Order, Scarcely

Jacob Bronowski

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Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known; we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error and is personal. Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible.

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John Dean

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9
11 changed everything. We lose more Americans every year drowning in the bathtub than through terrorism. But terrorism has been used as a lever to frighten people, pass legislation, sound tough and coerce us into giving away our rights in pursuit of phantom problems.

Away, Giving, Lever, People, Tough

David Brainerd

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

Design, Grow, Looks, Possibly, World