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Why are our people going out there,” said Mr. Boggis of the Thieves’ Guild.Because they are showing ...

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I was tired of this silly joking about my 'speaking countenance'. I could keep a secret as well as a...

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Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fu...

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Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fu...

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First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of a...

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By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.

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Dale CarnegieHow to Win Friends and Influence People

Women everywhere are always expected to continually imagine what one situation or another would look...

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David GraeberThe Utopia of Rules: On Technology

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that th...

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Dorothy L. SayersThe Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather:that man is call...

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As children', wrote Alice Raikes (Mrs. Wilson Fox) in The Times, January 22, 1932, 'we lived in Onsl...

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Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of.

From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure

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Michel FoucaultThe Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

The Christian should be characterized by an effort to see things in the best light; if it is true th...

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Pope John Paul IIllustrissimi: Letters from Pope John Paul I

The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the ...

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