In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
J. M. Coetzee
Recitation: by Male by Female
When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.
Joan Blades
ResponsibilitySupportYouValues
While I admire writers who are able to write with a vitality based on order and action, I work in a different vein. I often feel that if I can get the language just right, the language hypnotizes the reader.
Jesmyn Ward
WorkActionLanguageFeelI Can
I want to perform and be tested; I want the vibrant energy of the younger generation of directors and actors to rub off on me.
Amitabh Bachchan
MeEnergyGenerationWantOff
It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'
Roger Ebert
HellConsequencesFindRareFilm
Life should be embraced like a lover.
Rose Tremain
LifeLikeShouldLoverEmbraced
If the auto companies were free agents, they would act to break the fuel monopoly that is so damaging to their own interests and those of their customers. But they are not, and so they won't.
Robert Zubrin
FreeMonopolyActBreakOwnWould
I think we need to stand with Israel.
Ron DeSantis
ThinkStandNeedIsraelI Think
In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.
Ron Paul
TimeWarSupportWillBecomeClear
I would like to be remembered as a boxer who tried to do his best.
Miguel Cotto
BestRememberedWouldLikeTried
Skin is not only an envelope protecting the inner body, or a membrane that allows exchange between exterior and interior of the body. It also serves as a mingling point between the outer world and inner self, and between body and soul.
Miru Kim
SoulWorldSelfBodySkinInterior
For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.
Miroslav Volf
ConvictionLivedAbsurdWhoMuslim
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
TruthThreeFirstThroughBeing
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