National Treasure  - Quotes

 Sadusky:
The Templars and the Freemasons believed that the treasure was too great for any one man to have, not even a king. That's why they went to such lengths to keep it hidden.
Ben Gates:
That's right. The founding fathers believed the same thing about government. I figure their solution will work for the treasure too.
Sadusky:
Give it to the people.
 



Philadelphia  - Quotes

 Joe Miller:
We're standing here in Philadelphia, the, uh, city of brotherly love, the birthplace of freedom, where the, uh, founding fathers authored the Declaration of Independence, and I don't recall that glorious document saying anything about all straight men are created equal. I believe it says all men are created equal.
 

Toni Morrison  - Quotes

 They shoot the white girl first, but the rest they can take their time. No need to hurry out here. They are 17 miles from a town which has 90 miles between it and any other. Hiding places will be plentiful in the convent, but there is time, and the day has just begun. They are nine. Over twice the number of the women, they are obliged to stampede or kill, and they have the paraphernalia for either requirement--rope, a palm leaf cross, handcuffs, mace, and sunglasses, along with clean, handsome guns. 

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Edgar Allan Poe  - Quotes

 That is another of your odd notions, 

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Neil Gaiman  - Quotes

 Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found. 

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Albert Camus  - Quotes

 At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it. 

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Victor Hugo  - Quotes

 To travel is to be born and to die at every instant; perhaps, in the vaguest region of his mind, he did make comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence: all the things of life are perpetually fleeing before us; the dark and bright intervals are intermingled; after a dazzling moment, an eclipse; we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; each event is a turn in the road, and, all at once, we are old; we feel a shock; all is black; we distinguish an obscure door; the gloomy horse of life, which has been drawing us halts, and we see a veiled and unknown person unharnessing amid the shadows. 

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Annie Dillard  - Quotes

 You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. 

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Jane Austen  - Quotes

 Till this moment I never knew myself. 

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Mitch Albom  - Quotes

 All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time. 

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Mitch Albom  - Quotes

 It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives. 

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Laozi  - Quotes

 At the center of your being

you have the answer;

you know who you are

and you know what you want.
 

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Victor Hugo  - Quotes

 There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions. 

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  - Quotes

 The heights by great men reached and kept

Were not attained by sudden flight,

But they, while their companions slept,

Were toiling upward in the night.
 

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Chuck Klosterman  - Quotes

 Art and love are the same thing: It 

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Euripides  - Quotes

 Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death? 

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Douglas Adams  - Quotes

 The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like.



It wasn
 

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Mary Shelley  - Quotes

 If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us. 

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Tracy Chapman  - Quotes

 Now love's the only thing thats free. We must take it where it's found. Pretty soon it may be costly. 

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Victor Hugo  - Quotes

 The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. 

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C.S. Lewis  - Quotes

 No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city. 

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Thomas Wolfe  - Quotes

 I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me--and I think for all of us--not only our own hope, but America's everlasting, living dream. 

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Brian Miller  - Quotes

 A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.

 

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Milan Kundera  - Quotes

 We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. 

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Chris Crutcher  - Quotes

 From a distance,' he says, 'my car looks just like every other car on the freeway, and Sarah Byrnes looks just like the rest of us. And if she's going to get help, she'll get it from herself or she'll get it from us. Let me tell you why I brought this up. Because the other day when I saw how hard it was for Mobe to go to the hospital to see her, I was embarrassed that I didn't know her better, that I ever laughed at one joke about her. I was embarrassed that I let some kid go to school with me for twelve years and turned my back on pain that must be unbearable. I was embarrassed that I haven't found a way to include her somehow the way Mobe has.'



Jesus. I feel tears welling up, and I see them running down Ellerby's cheeks. Lemry better get a handle on this class before it turns into some kind of therapy group.



So,' Lemry says quietly, 'your subject will be the juxtaposition of man and God in the universe?'



Ellerby shakes his head. 'My subject will be shame.
 

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Rodney Dangerfield  - Quotes

 When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. 

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Edna St. Vincent Millay  - Quotes

 And he whose soul is flat -- the sky

Will cave in on him by and by.
 

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Isaac Asimov  - Quotes

 -Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me. 

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Craig Thompson  - Quotes

 How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary. 

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Louise Erdrich  - Quotes

 The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes. 

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Charles A. Beard  - Quotes

 It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. 

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