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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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For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. – John Updike

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – John Updike

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Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. – John Updike

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But we dont have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy – which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world. – Peter L. Berger

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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. – Joseph Ratzinger

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I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost. – Terry Pratchett

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When an individual is protesting societys refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. – Bayard Rustin

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If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear. – Ivo Andric

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The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place. – Sacha Guitry

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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. – V. S. Naipaul

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But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude. – Jon Fishman

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