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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#find #gods #men #new #old

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#describe #equal #equal rights #factor #feminists

Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

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Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue? ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

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We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge. ↗

— Karel Capek

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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. ↗

— John le Carre

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The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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