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#1. No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

Fisher Ames

#2. Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

Carl Sandburg

#3. The two men sat there together, in the kind of silence that's not empty because it has the thoughts of two longtime friends to fill it.

Suzette Haden Elgin

#4. Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.

Barbara Kingsolver

#5. The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.

Vladimir Lenin

#6. Bread is a celebration.

Lynne Rossetto Kasper

#7. To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

Max Beerbohm

#8. I allow no one to touch me.

Paul Cezanne

#9. The Germans love frankness and honesty. It is so convenient to be frank and honest. This confidingness, this complacence, this showing the cards of German honesty, is probably the most dangerous and most successful disguise which the German is up to nowadays.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. Guess you can take the girl off the Earth but you can't take the Earth out of the girl. Not completely, anyway.

Brenda Hiatt

#11. His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god.

Roger Zelazny

#12. I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.

Julian Fellowes