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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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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. – John Updike

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Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. – John Updike

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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or ones people that has not previously been taken into account. – Alice Walker

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A society in which there are high levels of voluntary activity will simply be a better, happier place than one where there are not. – Jonathan Sacks

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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. – Samuel Johnson

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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. – Simone Weil

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The fog is rising. – Emily Dickinson

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