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Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. ↗

— Albert Pike

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I've got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I'm really fascinated by that. ↗

— Rosamund Pike

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I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#because #day #easy #find #hunt

The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word. ↗

— Harold Pinter

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When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#culture #goes #itself #norms #outside

My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.' ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#brother #climb #come #crying #fall

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#child #constituency #does #exist #politician

I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#accomplished #awards #books #discuss #final

I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they're brothers and sisters, man. They're brothers and sisters and it's a sight for elation. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#boy #brothers #cambodia #daughter #elation

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. ↗

— Plato

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