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Before child labor laws, there were businesses that treated their ten-year-old employees well. society didn’t ban child labor because it’s impossible to imagine children working in a good environment,...

Jonathan Safran Foer

Before child labor laws, there were businesses that treated their ten-year-old employees well. society didn’t ban child labor because it’s impossible to imagine children working in a good environment,...

Jonathan Safran Foer

Tags: child labor, ethics, nonfiction, vegetarianism

Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and...

John Green

Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and...

John Green

Tags: looking for alaska, pudge

Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain...

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain...

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tags: ambivalent, hopeless, hopelessness, implausible, impossible, inner conflict, intelligence, opposing views

Becoming requires equal parts patience and rigor. Becoming is never giving up on the idea that there’s more growing to be done.

Michelle Obama

Becoming requires equal parts patience and rigor. Becoming is never giving up on the idea that there’s more growing to be done.

Michelle Obama

Tags: inspirational

Because we're two of a kind. You were made to take care of me, and I'm going to take care of you.

Jodi Picoult

Because we're two of a kind. You were made to take care of me, and I'm going to take care of you.

Jodi Picoult

Because we are human we have a long childhood, and one of the jobs of that childhood is to sculpt our brains. We have years--about twelve of them--to draw outlines of the shape we want our sculpted br...

E.L. Konigsburg

Because we are human we have a long childhood, and one of the jobs of that childhood is to sculpt our brains. We have years--about twelve of them--to draw outlines of the shape we want our sculpted br...

E.L. Konigsburg

Tags: brains, childhood, children, children s books, children s lit, children s literature, development, experiences, life, life experiences

Because this injunction for all women to have children isn't in any way logical. If you take a moment to consider the state of the world, the thing you notice is that there are plenty of babies being...

Caitlin Moran

Because this injunction for all women to have children isn't in any way logical. If you take a moment to consider the state of the world, the thing you notice is that there are plenty of babies being...

Caitlin Moran

Tags: pregnancy, sexism, world

Because lascivious or venal lips had murmured the same words to him, he now had little belief in their sincerity when he heard them from Emma; they should be taken with a grain of salt, he thought, be...

Gustave Flaubert

Because lascivious or venal lips had murmured the same words to him, he now had little belief in their sincerity when he heard them from Emma; they should be taken with a grain of salt, he thought, be...

Gustave Flaubert

Because around a crisis point, even the tiniest action can assume importance all out of proportion to its size. Consequences multiply and cascade, and anything—a missed telephone call, a match struck...

Connie Willis

Because around a crisis point, even the tiniest action can assume importance all out of proportion to its size. Consequences multiply and cascade, and anything—a missed telephone call, a match struck...

Connie Willis

Beauty and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two makes it seem doubly true that a woman must be beautiful to be sexual. That of c...

Naomi Wolf

Beauty and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two makes it seem doubly true that a woman must be beautiful to be sexual. That of c...

Naomi Wolf

Tags: aging, beauty, body image, cosmetic surgery, cosmetics, culture, diet industry, double standards, eating disorders, equality

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

Naomi Wolf

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

Naomi Wolf

Tags: aging, beauty, body image, cosmetic surgery, cosmetics, culture, diet industry, double standards, eating disorders, equality

Beauty is the name of something that doesn’t exist

Fernando Pessoa

Beauty is the name of something that doesn’t exist

Fernando Pessoa

Beauty is a promise of happiness.

Alain de Botton

Beauty is a promise of happiness.

Alain de Botton

Beauty before me, Beauty behind me, Beauty above me, Beauty below me, I walk in beauty. Smoke

Linda Lay Shuler

Beauty before me, Beauty behind me, Beauty above me, Beauty below me, I walk in beauty. Smoke

Linda Lay Shuler

Be thankful for the people who have stood by you and cheered you on, but don't forget to be thankful for the ones that said it could not be done. Writing a book is no small task and even the skeptics...

C.K. Webb

Be thankful for the people who have stood by you and cheered you on, but don't forget to be thankful for the ones that said it could not be done. Writing a book is no small task and even the skeptics...

C.K. Webb

Tags: ck webb, motivation, skeptics, supporters, writing

Be like Sindbad. Venture forth! Embosom the waves, let your shoes be sucked from your feet and your very trousers enticed by the frothing deep. The ambiguous sea awaits, I told them, marry it!There’s...

Donald Barthelme

Be like Sindbad. Venture forth! Embosom the waves, let your shoes be sucked from your feet and your very trousers enticed by the frothing deep. The ambiguous sea awaits, I told them, marry it!There’s...

Donald Barthelme

Tags: carpe diem, courage, curiosity, cynicism, life, living, teaching, teachings, teenagers

Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where...

Robin Hobb

Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where...

Robin Hobb

Tags: inspirational, turning point, wintrow

Basta con que uno hable español pero no sea de España, y voilà, pertenece a una raza llamada hispana.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Basta con que uno hable español pero no sea de España, y voilà, pertenece a una raza llamada hispana.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Basically, Sam Phillips recorded Bill Haley, Johnny Cash, and all those other Memphis guys; Chuck Berry played the top two strings; Elvis appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show above the waist; the Beatles...

Frank Portman

Basically, Sam Phillips recorded Bill Haley, Johnny Cash, and all those other Memphis guys; Chuck Berry played the top two strings; Elvis appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show above the waist; the Beatles...

Frank Portman

Bandits and governments 'ave so much in common that they might be interchangeable anywhere in the world...

Terry Pratchett

Bandits and governments 'ave so much in common that they might be interchangeable anywhere in the world...

Terry Pratchett

Tags: governments
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