John Burnside
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All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... 
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. 
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. 
I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. 
We're all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. 
With the Internet, we can communicate instantly across the globe, but the net also makes it possible... 
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own. 
To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couc... 
Some computers have security software that make it impossible to hack into, and it's the same wi... 
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an enc... 
The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with. 
U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions wi... 
Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ... 
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'Stay With Me,' for me, is my own personal anthem to the 'walk of shame...' that we&... 
I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the ... 
We are deluged with information. We have to process now three times as much data as we would have do... 
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, bu... 
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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into n... 
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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own. 
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own. 
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own 
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I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... 
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Being about to land on the soil of North Carolina, the general commanding desires his soldiers to re... 
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No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... 
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... 
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... 
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Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. 
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. 
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ... 
When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b... 
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Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa... 
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. 
You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw... 
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... 
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Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my... 
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When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. 
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Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. 
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If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. 
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Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else. 
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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir... 
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. 
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? 
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. 
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Old friends are best. 
They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side. 
I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life. 
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? 
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You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part. 
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. 
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. 