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Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.


Howard Zinn
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
Richard Dawkins
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Nothing exists except through language.


Hans-Georg Gadamer
No one is mocked with the yearning for that which he has no ability to attain. If he holds the right mental attitude and struggles earnestly, honestly toward his goal, he will reach it, or at least approximate to it.
Orison Swett Marden
Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
Craig Venter
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Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.
Peter Ackroyd
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We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.


Elbert Hubbard
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I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. That's my nature.


Madison Smartt Bell
The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.
Georg Baselitz
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Truth exists; only lies are invented.


Georges Braque
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Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.
Rosemary Mahoney
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.
Morris Graves
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Nobody will be allowed to use Pakistan soil for any form of aggression toward any friend or foe.


Asif Ali Zardari
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The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.


Barry Gibb
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.


Oscar Wilde
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
Marianne Williamson
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You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.
Rick Mercer
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.
Clifford Geertz
Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
Rachel Cusk
Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.
Chaim Potok