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Quote by John Updike
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. – John Updike

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The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. – John Updike

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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. – John Updike

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Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. – John Updike

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I did it to myself. It wasnt society… it wasnt a pusher, it wasnt being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing. – Ray Charles

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Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles. – John Kasich

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If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, This is the way you want to be. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people. – Iain Duncan Smith

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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. – Frederick Douglass

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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. – Buddha

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A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra. – Michael Bolton

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The object of literature is to make man a wiser and happier being. The poet makes us happy because he tells us how we may become so. – Charles Lanman, “Thoughts on Literature,” 1840

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