Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one pattern to another: a potential translation in which narrative becomes parable and the once upon a time comes to stand for some renascent truth. This approach applies to all the incidents of everyday life: the phrase in the newspaper, the endearing or infuriating game of a toddler, the misunderstanding at the office. Our species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all.
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The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
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Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
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The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
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The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
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What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.
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When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.
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Unusual precocity in children, is usually the result of an unhealthy state of the brain; and, in such cases, medical men would now direct, tha...
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In civil and political affairs, American women take no interest or concern, except so far as they sympathize with their family and personal fr...
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.
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Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
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It really bothered me that this had happened to her so young, at the age of 17, and she had been given a very light sentence, kind of a second chance. It sounded like from there it went down hill. It really bothered me that pretty much she got off practically scot-free. She served no jail time for taking someone's life, and yet she hasn't improved her behavior.
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First, there are so many artists. Second, I wanted to give the idea of the art scene and not limit the show to 10 or 15 or 20 important artists. I wanted to restitute something of the life of the scene. Another problem was that I had to decide which artists I could consider. Most are not really from L.A.; they arrived as students or teachers and stayed. Others were born in Los Angeles, but left early. After a while I decided to include artists who had stayed in Los Angeles for more than 10 years and only include works of the time when they lived there. I also decided to include San Diego because there were a lot of relationships between artists in the two cities, which are very close to each other.
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... much less time should be given to school, and much more to domestic employments, especially in the wealthier classes. A little girl may be...
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Despite our belief that the complaint ... was without merit, we elected to settle this case so that we can put it behind us and maintain our focus on serving our customers.
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We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness.
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... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of living a life ...
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of ...
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I praise loudly, I blame softly.
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Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind.
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We should have hit them. The girls were a little off. I kind of noticed that before we even left (Gilroy High). But we couldn't change that quick enough.
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We kept saying, If you'll load the gun, we'll put it down.' It was a great win for us,
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If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze.
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I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.
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Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.
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With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.
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