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I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.

~Anne Tyler

Topics: Actually Backbone Behold Characters Enough Given Hear Just Own Say Stand Supernatural Texture Then Think Voices Want Well I Think

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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

~Annie Besant

Topics: Absurd Believe Denial Experience Given Limited Our Outside Own Position Proof Rational Refusal Until

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Every time you're given a job, you're given a gift, and if you're flexible, you never know what's going to happen.

~Annie Golden

Topics: Every Every Time Flexible Gift Given Going Happen Job Know Never Time You

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Just because you live 20 years or 100 years doesn't make it less meaningful. They're both short amount of times. So all we can do is just live in that time, whatever time we're given.

~Ansel Elgort

Topics: Amount Because Both Given Just Just Because Less Live Make Meaningful Short Time Times Whatever Years You 100 Years

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The shooter's choice of Emanuel AME was most likely deliberate, given the church's storied history. It was the first African Methodist Episcopal church in the South, founded in 1818 by a group of men including Morris Brown, a prominent pastor, and Denmark Vesey, who would go on to lead a large, yet failed, slave revolt in Charleston.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: African Brown Charleston Choice Church Deliberate Denmark Episcopal Failed First Founded Given Go Group History Including Large Lead Likely Men Methodist Morris Most Pastor Prominent Revolt Shooter Slave South Who Would

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You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Anything As Far As Barcelona Being Better Between Choice Die Far Finding Food Given Hard Hard Time Hub San Than Time Want You

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I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

~Anthony Braxton

Topics: Been Could Creator Discipline Discovered Gift Given Greatest Greatest Gift Music Possibility Student Thank Universe Working World

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The prominence given to our nation as a rainbow country has its genesis and credence in our 'Calaloo culture' of which our East Indian brothers and sisters have played a principal part.

~Anthony Carmona

Topics: Brothers Brothers And Sisters Country Culture East Genesis Given Indian Nation Our Part Played Principal Rainbow Sisters Which

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It is indeed fitting for me to make a comment to the effect that it takes a village to raise a child because I have lived in many villages down in deep south, and everyone there who played a part in my stewardship as a young man growing up and as a professional, they have given me unstinting support.

~Anthony Carmona

Topics: Because Child Comment Deep Down Effect Everyone Fitting Given Growing Growing Up Indeed Lived Make Man Many Me Part Played Professional Raise South Stewardship Support Takes Up Village Villages Who Young Young Man

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'Never do the dishes without music,' my brother Mark once advised me - the same brother who once ate a spoonful of refrigerated dog food to escape his turn at the kitchen sink. And really, it may be the most sensible advice I've been given.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Advice Advised Ate Been Brother Dishes Dog Escape Food Given His Kitchen Mark May Me Most Music Never Once Really Same Sensible Sink Turn Who Without

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