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“It's somewhat of a contradiction, .. I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not going to leap out at you and scream. I also can't control how a book is marketed. To say the book marketing is aggressive, fine, I'm happy with that. Push the book. That doesn't mean that my personality or writing style changes.”

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David Bergen

David Bergen is a Canadian novelist known for his distinctive narrative style and profound insights into social issues. His works often explore the complexities of personal identity, memory, and history. more

“The 21 Arab states that could easily have absorbed the original 650,000 Palestinian refugees in 1948 refused to do so, even though their combined land mass was 700 times greater than that possessed by Israel. By contrast, the Jewish population of the new state was only 600,000, yet Israel willingly absorbed some 820,000 Jewish refugees from Europe.”

Contrast Palestinian Refugee

Author:Randall Price

“Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.”

Would Be Tree Responsible Forests Burning Managers Soil Fuel Farmers Carbon Fossils Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide

Author:Alana Beard

“The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction.”

Individual Term Destruction Universal Absorption

Author:C. H. Dodd

“I think it was coach Lombardi that said, 'Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it.' And that's so true.”

Thinking Said Character Adversity Coaches Lombardi

Author:Mike Sherman

“I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the painting, it's like going back into childhood. And it's like an abstract piece.. it becomes the landscape of the brush marks rather than just sort of an intellectual landscape.”

People Knows Want Pieces Childhood Painting Intellectual Mark Landscape Abstract Brushes

Author:Jenny Saville

“Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side, and holds them up to a light that discovers those latent flaws which would probably have lain concealed in the gloom of unagitated abstraction.”

Giving Play Light Sides Views Conversation Notion Flaws Faculty Abstraction Concealed Gloom Vigorous Latent

Book:Fitzosborne's Letters on several subjects ... Eleventh edition, with the Dialogue on Oratory [translated from Tacitus]: to which is prefixed a life of the author

Source: Fitzosborne's Letters on several subjects ... Eleventh edition, with the Dialogue on Oratory [translated from Tacitus]: to which is prefixed a life of the author

“If my mother hadn't thrown my football boots on the fire, I might have become as famous as Denis Compton.”

Ifs Might Mother Fire Football Thrown Boots Compton

Author:Len Hutton

“The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.”

Needs Feels Pain Life Is Ability Laughing Humour Communication Anxiety Laughter Gains Distance Relief Absurdity Hierarchy Laugh At Life Love And Communication

Author:Sara Davidson

“Patience and rest are key. Knowing how your body feels. You're the only person that knows how your body feels. The way of going about it is expressing it to your trainers and your coaches so you won't damage anything else.”

Knows Way Feels Persons Body Know How Knowing Keys Your Body Coaches Damage Trainers

Author:Donovan McNabb

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