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All literary men are Red Sox fans – to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. – John Cheever

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When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. – John Cheever

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. – John Cheever

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Knowledge
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I cant write without a reader. Its precisely like a kiss – you cant do it alone. – John Cheever

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The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war. – Lester B. Pearson

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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. – John Ruskin

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Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented. – Daisaku Ikeda

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Society is composed of two great classes — those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. – Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Chamfort)

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Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly? – King Abdullah II

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He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave. – Matthew Henry

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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. – Amelia Earhart

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