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«In unsettled times like these, when world cultures, countries and religions are facing off in violent confrontations, we could benefit from the reminder that storytelling is common to all civilizations. Whether in the form of a sprawling epic or a pointed ballad, the story is our most ancient method of making sense out of experience and of preserving the past.»
Author: William Collins
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The Story,
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«Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time / is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.»
Author: Cesare Pavese
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Critic,
Novelist,
Poet,
Translator)
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Keywords:
bestial,
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by fits and starts,
by no means,
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sufferer,
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«The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a reminder of the 40,000 generations of thinking men and women who preceded us, about whom we know almost nothing, upon whom our civilization is based.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
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Astronomer,
Scientist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
American civilization,
American Woman,
canyons,
generations,
preceded,
reminder,
reminders,
Southwest,
whips
«An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return»
«Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire»
Author: George F. Will
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About:
War
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Keywords:
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Continent,
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Empire,
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«A book is like a man / clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.»
Author: John Steinbeck
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Novelist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
cowardly,
feathers,
flight,
flowering,
loop,
looped,
looping,
loops,
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on the wing,
reminder,
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tap,
the Loop,
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wing
«And keep up prayer in the two parts of the day and in the first hours of the night; surely good deeds take away evil deeds this is a reminder to the mindful. (The Holy Prophet 11.114)»