The world should always be concerned whenever a vast human rights violation occurs anywhere on the planet. - Junot Diaz

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Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

Junot Diaz

The world should always be concerned whenever a vast human rights violation occurs anywhere on the planet.

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I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.

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I never hear white writers get asked, 'Do you worry about how you represent white people?'

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I always wanted to read. I always thought I was going to be a historian. I would go to school and study history and then end up in law school, once, I ran out of loot trying to be a history high school teacher. But my dream was always to place myself in a situation where I was always surrounded by books.

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I look most like myself. . . when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.

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I always think about myself as a writer; that comes out of being a reader first, and I don't think I kind of got to really playing with language in any formal way probably until I was in my mid-twenties.

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Garrett Clayton

I was very headstrong about wanting to keep my name when I moved to Los Angeles. But casting directors would call my managers and say I was perfect for the part, but my name wasn't marketable - I was a young guy, and had the old man name of Gary. I kept losing jobs because of the name not being marketable, so I changed it to Garrett.

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Thomas Huxley

Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.

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George Washington

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness - these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. . . . reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.

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