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As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

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The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#commits #decide #dogma #earth #favor

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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I don't go to parties in general. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#go #i #parties

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#being #brazil #career #death #encouraged

I'm not getting paid right now. No pay, no critique. ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

#getting #i #now #paid #pay

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#beyond #care #culture #education #extends

In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than men are - as a matter of fact, often they are more so! ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#any #compassionate #competitive #experience #fact

We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

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