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children convinced good hook machine marvelous
As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone. Rodman Philbrick
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Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years. R. Laing
children elderly woman
an elderly person/couple or woman with young children.
children create opportunity wealth
an opportunity to create wealth not only for yourself but for your children and your children's children.
children fails families human proposed protect protective rule testing
A proposed rule on human pesticide testing that fails to protect children and families should be shelved immediately. A protective rule must be issued in its place, Barbara Boxer
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These men, whether laicized, defrocked, or restricted from ministry, continue to pose a threat to all children they come in contact with. The Archdiocese has an obligation to minimize or eradicate that threat.
children grab hurts measures power schools
These measures are all about a power grab by Gov. Schwarzenegger that hurts our children, our schools and our teachers.
children nearest planets smallest sun
The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun
children fact high months rate stunning
the stunning fact that children 6 to 23 months old, if they get influenza, have the same high rate of hospitalization as adults 65 years and older.
philosophical virtue reason
True virtue is life under the direction of reason. Baruch Spinoza
philosophical passion emotion
I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
philosophical interesting house
'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because Gruen is not quite prepared for the philosophical implications of her subject, it is not as deeply involving emotionally or as interesting thematically as it could be. Jane Smiley
philosophical writing heart
Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it. Blaise Pascal
philosophical objectivity doe
The philosopher forms his principles on an infinity of particular observations...He does not confuse truth with plausibility...he takes for truth what is true, for false what is false, for doubtful what is doubtful, and probable what is probable...The philosophical spirit is thus a spirit of observation and accuracy. Denis Diderot
philosophical boredom sides
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination. Arthur Schopenhauer
philosophical adversity doubt
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
philosophical pessimism stubbornness
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
philosophical men lasts
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
reading script
I've been reading script after script after script, Jesse McCartney
reading since
I've been collecting, reading 'Peanuts' since I was five,
reading differences people
Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference. Brandon Sanderson
reading airplane seeing
Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome. Ben Mezrich
reading book writing
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written. Barbara Kingsolver
reading focus solitude
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus. Augusten Burroughs
reading reality order
We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading. And if we do so, our reward is the discovery of the many hidden layers within these works that do not merely reflect reality but reveal a spectrum of truths, thus intrinsically going against the grain of totalitarian mindsets. Azar Nafisi
reading people library
Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading? Ayn Rand
reading tired substance
I got tired of reading that everybody was either coming out of the closet or they were abused or had some kind of substance problem. Jamie Farr