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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than o

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. – Carlos Fuentes

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You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity… We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican. – Carlos Fuentes

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Freedom
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Carlos Fuentes
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I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience. – Ricky Williams

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I think everyones experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which theyre living and the relationships that they have. – Laura Linney

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But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience. – Richard Dawkins

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In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future! – Dan Quayle

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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. – Steve Jobs

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You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. – John Ciardi

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I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that theyre going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them. – Chester Brown

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. – Thomas Jefferson

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