It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
John Burroughs
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type, most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.
Jerry B. Jenkins
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Science fiction's been good to me. The fans are the most loyal fans in the world.
Robert Picardo
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What was so amazing and inspiring about 'GoodFellas' was that it showed the foot soldiers; the people more at the bottom as opposed to focusing on the godfathers and the guys at the top.
John Hillcoat
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In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with.
Michael Ignatieff
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I've been working a lot on my lateral movement, and angles - it's coming natural to me now - and on different techniques, keeping my hands right.
Amir Khan
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The phrase 'work/life balance' encapsulates a depressing outlook.
Tom Hodgkinson
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The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
Rudy Rucker
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I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.
Mary Karr
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All the old forms of discrimination, the forms of discrimination we supposedly left behind, are now perfectly legal once you've been labeled a felon.
Michelle Alexander
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Looking back, I feel very fortunate to have had such a long career. Many skaters end their careers in their early 20s. I had the opportunity to go to two Olympic Games - almost three after being the alternate in 1994 and then in 2006 being injured.
Michelle Kwan
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