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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things. ↗

— Iris Dement

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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths. ↗

— George Carey

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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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Experience is what you get while looking for something else. ↗

— Federico Fellini

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I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work. ↗

— Linda Cardellini

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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. ↗

— Karl Kraus

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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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