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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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Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. – John Updike

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Dreams
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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side. – Pauline Hanson

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I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now. – Will Rogers

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Society

We have to challenge the whole idea that its acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and dont have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives. – Iain Duncan Smith

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I think its great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view. – Bjorn Lomborg

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Let thy discontents be thy secrets. – Benjamin Franklin

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I think religion is often very different from spirituality. Religion is often about rules and people trying to control our lives who are actually very unspiritual… God can be found anywhere, and in fact, everywhere. And you don – Darren Aronofsky

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To change what you get you must change who you are. – Vernon Howard

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For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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