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"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." »Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Not only have women been successful in entering fields in which men are supposed to have a more natural aptitude, but they have created entirely new businesses." »Lucretia P. Hunter, ``The Girl Today, The Woman Tomorrow', 1932
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"No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions." »Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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"Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room." »Heywood
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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." »Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain." »Emily Dickinson
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"We are capable of destroying America and breaking its nose." »Muammar Qaddafi
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"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual." »Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922
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"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it." »Edward P. Morgan
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"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way." »Edward De Bono
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"Rules only make sense if they are both kept and broken. breaking the rule is one way of observing it." »Sir Thomas More
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"If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain." »Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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"The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves. They fancy themselves superior to every one else, and, not being sure of making good their secret pretensions, decline entering the lists altogether. Thus they ?lay the flattering unction to their souls? that they could have said better things than others, or that the conversation was beneath them." »Hazlitt
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"It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself." »Epictetus, Enchiridion
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"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun." »Mary Lou Cook
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of ths surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters." »Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (opening lines)
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"The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man." »Henry Wallace
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"If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen." »Sam James Ervin, Jr.
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"Oil prices will keep breaking new records until other countries move to nuclear and alternative energy sources or we discover massive new reserves and increase production dramatically over the next few years." »Med Jones
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"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy." »Charles Langbridge Morgan
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"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." »Thomas De Quincey, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - 1827
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"Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." »Thamas De Quincey
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"The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones." »Peter McWilliams
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"A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself." »Jessamyn West
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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own." »H.L. Mencken
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"I believe a man is born first unto himself-for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers." »D. H. Lawrence
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"The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart." »Elizabeth Bowen
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"When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,and my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well" »John Milton
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"There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts being broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream-whatever that dream might be." »Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
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