That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations - Margaret Landon

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The civil power must not be subservient to the advantage of any one individual, or of some few persons; inasmuch as it was established for the common good of all.

Margaret Landon

That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations

Journey, Destination, Roads And Journeys, Destinations, Roads, Journeys

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Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are

People, See, World

She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.

Heart, Sat, Secret, Trying

I gaze upon the thousand stars That fill the midnight sky; And wish, so passionately wish, A light like theirs on high. I have such eagerness of hope To benefit my kind; I feel as if immortal power Were given to my mind.

Benefit, Eagerness, Light, Sky, Stars

To give an answer in advance of a question was futile, and to propound a question in order to supply the answer was also futile. There were difficulties that could best be met by unawareness of their existence.

Existence, Giving, Ignorance, Order, Question

Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.

Level, Levels, Maybe, Selfishness, Selflessness

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I got pictures of us and they would draw big red rings around us and tell what they thought of us. I got a letter said, "I have been shot three times throught the heart. I hope I see your second act. " But this white man who wants to stay white, and to think for the Negro, he is not only destroying the Negro, he is destroying himself, because a house divided against itself cannot stand and that same thing applies to America.

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Bret Easton Ellis

I think basically most men are misogynistic.

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Virginia Woolf

The English tourist in American literature wants above all things something different from what he has at home. For this reason the one American writer whom the English whole-heartedly admire is Walt Whitman. There, you will hear them say, is the real American undisguised. In the whole of English literature there is no figure which resembles his - among all our poetry none in the least comparable to Leaves of Grass

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Pope Leo XII

The civil power must not be subservient to the advantage of any one individual, or of some few persons; inasmuch as it was established for the common good of all.

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One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

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