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Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something t — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat's Cradle
When Great Trees FallWhen great trees fall,rocks on distant hills shudder,lions hunker downin tall grasses,and even elep — Maya Angelou
I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Don't set your goals by what other people deem important. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedic — Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address
I have to return some videotapes — Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common h — H.L. Mencken
...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treat — Karl Marx, Selected Letters: The Personal Correspondence 1844-1877
Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.I — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but — Chris Kyle, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the n — Don DeLillo
Where humanitysowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed. — Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical — Charles Alexander Eastman, The Soul of the Indian
Would Crazy Horse have spent this much to remodel a kitchen? — Ian Frazier, On the Rez
The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here. — Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the right of — Paul Robeson
There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business — no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends.
I don't like the way people cherish the ghetto, as if it’s some royal palace, or kingdom. I also don't like the way peop — Delano Johnson, Words That Changed the World