“Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.”
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
Category: politics
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Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project
“Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it.”
— Robert Brady
Author: Robert Brady
Category: trust
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As happy a man as any in
Every age has its own poetry; in
“Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Category: poetry
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Fear is a terrible thing. It makes
I am building a fire, and everyday
I think we have grave problems. I
Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian
“Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.”
— Susan Orlean
Author: Susan Orlean
Category: experience
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Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence
“Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.”
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
Category: strength
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