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  1. Walter Isaacson _ American Sketches: Great

    There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.
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  2. Kate Elliott _ Cold Steel

    Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see?
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  3. William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer

    The author points out that novices to total war, and this Hitler and the British press have in common, overreact to daily events and lose sight of overall strategy.
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  4. William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer

    The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes the past succeed only in making it seem implausible.
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  5. Neil Gaiman _ American Gods

    It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.
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  6. Seamus Heaney _ The Cure at Troy: A Version of

    Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.
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  7. George Eliot _ Adam Bede

    Her own misery filled her heart-there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.
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  8. George Eliot _ Middlemarch

    It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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  9. Edmund Spenser _ The Faerie Queene

    Why then should witless man so much misweeneThat nothing is but that which he hath seene?
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  10. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ Notes from Underground, White

    But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.
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  11. Bill Bryson _ In a Sunburned Country

    Describing his experience with the sting of an extremely toxic jellyfish, he did something you don't often see a scientist do: he shivered.
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  12. James Baldwin _ Go Tell It on the Mountain

    But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective to say the very least, changes only with the journey; only when the road has, all abruptly and treacherously, and with an absoluteness that permits no argument, turned or dropped or risen is one able to see all that one could not have seen from any other place.
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