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All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#aware #born #brought #clan #deeply

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#because #become #experience #human #human experience

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#degree #great #great literature #language #literature

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy. ↗

— Colin Powell

#contact #enemy #plan #survives

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#book #cream #gets #gland #instead

Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom...but only if you plant the seeds. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#fertile-soil #plant #recovery #seeds #success

We're trying to fix this with the plan we've been floating. Now, the law says the transition ends in 2006 or - and the "or" is the only part that matters - 85 percent of Americans go buy a digital TV. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#buy #digital #ends #fix #floating

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#best #devised #fruit #fundamental #i

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#especially #fashion #fast #go #how

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#come #explanation #human #human beings #music