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  • Vladimir Nabokov Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as ''nymphets.''
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Blaise Pascal Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Sydney Smith Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Amy Carmichael Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.
    Amy Carmichael
    Missionary in India (1867 - 1951)
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  • John Burroughs Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • A. C. Swinburne Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • O. Henry Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective; but such cases are rare.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Barry Sternlicht Booking windows are shrinking, and customers are going mobile: trends which position HotelTonight perfectly for the future.
    Barry Sternlicht
    billionaire and the (1960 - )
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  • James Russell Lowell Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Joseph Addison Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Horace Mann Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows.
    The Duty of Owning Books (1859)
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Sir William Temple Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Derek Walcott Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
    Derek Walcott
    Saint Lucian poet and playwright, winner Nobel Prize in Literature (1930 - 2017)
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  • Bill Delahunt Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.
    Bill Delahunt
    American lawyer and politician (1941 - )
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  • Bobby Flay Brushes are crucial for applying glazes, sauces, and oils. The pastry brushes that you find in homestores can be pricey so pay a visit to your local hardware store and pick up a few paint brushes which are less expensive and work equally as well.
    Bobby Flays Grill It
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Anne Hutchinson But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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