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Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

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Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

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I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from. ↗

— Allen Tate

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The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results. ↗

— Major Taylor

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Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives. ↗

— Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

#attention #bringing #chance #child #competition

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening. ↗

— Helen Thomas

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