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If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed. ↗

— Pindar

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People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

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I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things. ↗

— Robert Plant

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When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. ↗

— Plato

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A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head. ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#given #head #like #man #never

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight. ↗