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In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.
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In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.
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In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.
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In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.
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In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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In all our efforts to provide ''advantages'' we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.''
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In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?
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In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
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In America, if you put your mind to it you can have anything you want. You just can't have everything you want.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
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In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.
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In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true. But lots of other stuff can have an influence.
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In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
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In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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